Etymology

interlinguistics

Today it means: The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product. Full definition →

English linguistics ← Latin lingua ← Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
  8. Proto-Italic*dn̥ɣwā
  9. Latindingua
  10. Latinlingua
  11. Englishlinguist
  12. Englishlinguistics
  13. English todayinterlinguistics

From inter- + linguistics.

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