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metalinguistic

adj

Etymology

From meta- + linguistic.

  1. derived from lingua — “tongue, language”
  2. borrowed from linguistisch
  3. prefixed as metalinguistic — “meta + linguistic”

Definitions

  1. Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning.

    • Mary is still one of the most popular girl's names. This represents a metalinguistic use of Mary: the case where we cite a linguistic expression in order to say something about it qua linguistic expression.

  2. Pertaining to metalinguistics.

The neighborhood

Derived

metalinguistically, metametalinguistic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metalinguistic. 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