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glottogonic

adj
/ˌɡlɒtəˈɡɒnɪk/UK/ˌɡlɑtəˈɡɒnɪk/US/ˌɡlɔtɘˈɡɔnɘk/

Etymology

From glottogony + -ic.

  1. derived from γονή
  2. formed as glottogony — “glotto- + -gony”
  3. formed as glottogonic — “glottogony + -ic”

Definitions

  1. Related to the origin or primordial development of language

    Related to the origin or primordial development of language; related to glottogony.

    • There are now quite a few glottogonic theories, some of which are also concerned with the origin of words as, for example, the one that argues that original words are connected with phonosymbolism, […]
    • Johannes Schmidt was later to argue that it was a natural step for the generation of scholars following Schleicher to discard the glottogonic reconstructions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for glottogonic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA