Etymology

nonlinguist

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Today it means: A person who is not a linguist. Full definition →

English linguist ← Latin lingua ← Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
  15. Proto-Italic*dn̥ɣwā
  16. Latindingua
  17. Latinlingua
  18. Englishlinguist
  19. English todaynonlinguist

From non- + linguist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.