linguistics – English noun declension

English noun forms of linguistics

Noun: linguistics
Singularlinguistics

Sample Sentences

  • a branch of linguistics
  • to study linguistics
  • By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical. [1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
3. Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
4. Latin dingua
5. Latin lingua
6. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
9. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
10. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
11. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
12. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
13. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
14. Latin -istader.
15. Old French -istebor.
16. Middle English -ist
17. English -ist
18. English linguist
19. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
20. Proto-Italic *-ikos
21. Latin -icuslbor.
22. Old French -iquebor.
23. Middle English -ik
24. English -ic
25. Old English -as
26. Middle English -es
27. English -s
28. English -ics
29. English linguistics
30. From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik. See: Latin Nouns 'linguisticus', German Nouns 'Linguistik'.

Verbs referencing "linguistics"

Polish Nouns lingwistyka.