The story
- Latin · derived fromelinguis“deprived of a tongue, tongueless; speechless”
- English todayelinguid
From Latin elinguis (“deprived of a tongue, tongueless; speechless”), from e + lingua (“tongue”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
elinguid
Today it means: tongue-tied, dumb or speechless Full definition →
Latin elinguis