Etymology

languet

lan·guet
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Today it means: A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel. Full definition →

Old French languete ← Latin lingua
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlingua
  2. Old French · derived fromlanguete
  3. English todaylanguet

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchlanguete all →

languette

Latinlingua all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.