language · noun, verb, interjection1
- Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
- Proto-Italic*dn̥ɣwā
- Latindingua
- Latinlingua
- Vulgar Latin*linguāticum
- Old Frenchlanguage
- Middle Englishlangage
- English todaylanguage
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced Old English ġeþēode. Mostly, but not fully, displaced native English tongue, in this specific sense, in common as well as academic usage.
language · noun2
Alteration of languet.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s all →
tung
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.