Etymology of the English word sublanguage
the English word
sublanguageusing the English prefix
sub-derived from the Late Latin word
sub (under)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*upoderived from 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-Usage
Word found in Modern English