Etymology

biolinguistic

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to the field of biolinguistics, the biological study of language Full definition →

English linguistic ← German linguistisch ← Latin lingua
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
  2. Ancient Greekβῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
  3. Ancient Greekβῐο- (bĭo-)
  4. Englishbio-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
  6. Proto-Italic*dn̥ɣwā
  7. Latindingua
  8. Latinlingua
  9. GermanLinguist
  10. GermanLinguistik
  11. Germanlinguistisch
  12. Englishlinguistic
  13. English todaybiolinguistic

From bio- + linguistic.

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