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Where does “lingualis” come from?

lingualis (Medieval Latin) comes from Latin lingua, from Latin -ula, from Proto-Indo-European -tlom, from Proto-Indo-European -trom, from Proto-Indo-European -tḗr — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

Ancestry of “lingualis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlinguatongue; a speech; an utterance or expression
2Latin-ularegō + API → rēgula; tegō + API → tēgula;...
3Proto-Indo-European-tlomAlternative form of *-trom
4Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
5Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

Words derived from “lingualis”

  • multilingual
  • lingual
  • monolingual
  • multilingualism
  • trilingual
  • monolingualism
  • interlingual
  • intralingual
  • lingually
  • unilingual
  • plurilingual
  • trilingualism
  • prelingual
  • buccolingual
  • prelingually
  • audiolingual
  • postlingual
  • monolingually
  • translingual
  • retrolingual
  • semilingualism
  • postlingually
  • polylingual
  • quadrilingual
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