linguistics

noun
/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *denɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English linguistics From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.

  1. derived from Linguistik

Definitions

  1. The systematic and scholarly study of language.

    • a branch of linguistics
    • to study linguistics

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at linguistics. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at linguistics. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at linguistics

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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