Etymology of the English word language
the English word
languagederived from the Old French word
langagederived from the Old French word
languederived from the Classical Latin word
lingua (tongue; tongue; speech, language)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*dn₀ghu-derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*dn₀ghū-Derivations in English
interlanguage,
metalanguage,
paralanguage,
protolanguage,
sublanguage,
slanguage,
languaged,
languagingCognates
Catalan
llengua, French
langue, Italian
lingua, Provençal
lenguaUsage
Word found in Modern English
