Noun: linguaxe
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | linguaxe |
| Plural f | linguaxes |
Sample Sentences
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«Osana fili[o] Dauidi», que quer dizer en lingoajen galego: señor faysnos saluos («Osana fili[o] Dauidi», which means, translated into Galician language: señor faysnos salvos [Lord, save us]) [1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC, page 19:]
Nouns inflected like linguaxe
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese lenguage; attested as linguage since circa 1300 in Old Galician chronicles. A medieval borrowing of Old Occitan lenguatge or Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, derived from Classical Latin lingua. Cognate of Portuguese linguagem. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
lenguage', Portuguese Nouns '
linguagem'.
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