【来源及含义】Latin: literally tongue; and by extension, speech, language
【相关描述】From Old Latin dingua which is a cognate (kindred) with Old English tunge, The change of d (in Old Latin dingua) to l (in Latin lingua) was probably due to dialectal influence (the so-called "Sabine l"). It was facilitated by a folk-etymological association with lingere, "to lick", the tongue having been conceived as "the licking organ".
【相关词根词缀】Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": ;cit-; ;clam-; ;dic-; ;fa-; ;-farious,glosso-; ;glotto-; ;lalo-; ;locu-; ;logo-; ;loqu-; ;mythico-; ;-ology,ora-,-phasia; ;-phemia; ;phon-,phras-,Quotes: Language,Part 1,Quotes: Language, Part 2,Quotes: Language, Part 3,serm-,tongue,voc-.
【同源单词】acutilingual, alveololingual, ambilingualism, anthropological linguistics, apex linguae, audiolingual