linguist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
Latin dingua
Latin lingua
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English linguist
Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: linguists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who studies linguistics.
pos: noun
gloss: One who studies linguistics.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: President Donald Trump has "turned words into weapons" -- and journalists are providing additional ammunition.
That's according to Trump critic George Lakoff, a renowned linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them.
gloss: A person skilled in languages.
pos: noun
examples: I found that he could write and read English, but could not speak it, being like myself a bad linguist; so we had to use French as a medium of communication.
The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.
gloss: A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
pos: noun
Synonyms: linguist
Related words: lingua
linguaphile
multilingual
polyglot
prescriptivist
scholar
philologist
linguistics
language
Derived words: anthropolinguist
bilinguist
co-linguist
colinguist
comparative linguist
cryptolinguist
cunning linguist
Eurolinguist
geolinguist
linguister
linguistic
linguistics
linguistry
metalinguist
missionary linguist
missionary-linguist
monolinguist
multilinguist
neolinguist
neurolinguist
nonlinguist
polylinguist
slanguist
trilinguist
unilinguist
xenolinguist
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: taalkundige
lang: Afrikaans
word: linguis
lang: Afrikaans
word: taalwetenskaplike
lang: Albanian
word: gjuhëtar
lang: Albanian
word: gjuhëtare
lang: Southern Altai
word: лингвист
roman: lingvist
lang: Arabic
word: لُغَوِيّ
roman: luḡawiyy
lang: Arabic
word: عَالِم لُغَوِيّ
roman: ʕālim luḡawiyy
lang: Arabic
word: لِسَانِيّ
roman: lisāniyy
lang: Armenian
word: լեզվաբան
roman: lezvaban
lang: Asturian
word: llingüista
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dilçi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dilşünas
lang: Azerbaijani
word: linqvist
lang: Basque
word: hizkuntzalari
lang: Belarusian
word: мовазна́вец
roman: movaznávjec
lang: Belarusian
word: моваве́д
roman: movavjéd
lang: Belarusian
word: лінгві́ст
roman: linhvíst
lang: Belarusian
word: лінгві́стка
roman: linhvístka
lang: Bulgarian
word: езикове́д
roman: ezikovéd
lang: Bulgarian
word: лингви́ст
roman: lingvíst
lang: Bulgarian
word: лингви́стка
roman: lingvístka
lang: Catalan
word: lingüista
lang: Cebuano
word: magdidila
lang: Chechen
word: меттанийн ӏилманча
roman: mettaniı̇n ˀilmanča
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 語言學家 /语言学家
roman: yǔyán xuéjiā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 語言學者 /语言学者
roman: yǔyán xuézhě
lang: Czech
word: jazykovědec
lang: Czech
word: jazykovědkyně
lang: Czech
word: lingvista
lang: Czech
word: lingvistka
lang: Danish
word: lingvist
lang: Danish
word: sprogforsker
lang: Danish
word: sprogvidenskabsmand
lang: Dutch
word: taalkundige
lang: Dutch
word: linguïst
lang: Esperanto
word: lingvisto
lang: Faroese
word: málfrøðingur
lang: Finnish
word: kielitieteilijä
lang: Finnish
word: kielentutkija
lang: Finnish
word: lingvisti
lang: Finnish
word: lingvistikko
lang: French
word: linguiste
lang: Galician
word: lingüista
lang: Georgian
word: ლინგვისტი
roman: lingvisṭi
lang: Georgian
word: ენათმეცნიერი
roman: enatmecnieri
lang: German
word: Sprachwissenschaftler
lang: German
word: Sprachwissenschaftlerin
lang: German
word: Sprachwissenschafter
lang: German
word: Sprachwissenschafterin
lang: German
word: Linguist
lang: German
word: Linguistin
lang: German
word: Sprachforscher
lang: German
word: Sprachforscherin
lang: Greek
word: γλωσσολόγος
roman: glossológos
lang: Greenlandic
word: oqaasilerisoq
lang: Hebrew
word: בַּלְשָׁן
roman: balshán
lang: Hindi
word: भाषाविद
roman: bhāṣāvid
lang: Hungarian
word: nyelvész
lang: Hungarian
word: nyelvtudós
lang: Icelandic
word: málvísindamaður
lang: Interlingua
word: linguista
lang: Irish
word: teangeolaí
lang: Italian
word: linguista
lang: Japanese
word: 言語学者
roman: gengogakusha
lang: Kazakh
word: тіл маманы
roman: tıl mamany
lang: Kazakh
word: лингвист
roman: liñvist
lang: Khmer
word: ភាសាវិទូ
roman: phiəsaa vituu
lang: Korean
word: 언어학자
roman: eoneohakja
lang: Kyrgyz
word: лингвист
roman: lingvist
lang: Lao
word: ນັກພາສາສາດ
roman: nak phā sā sāt
lang: Lao
word: ນາຍພາສາ
roman: nāi phā sā
lang: Latvian
word: valodnieks
lang: Latvian
word: lingvists
lang: Lithuanian
word: kalbininkas
lang: Lithuanian
word: lingvistas
lang: Lithuanian
word: kalbotyrininkas
lang: Macedonian
word: јазичар
roman: jazičar
lang: Macedonian
word: јазичарка
roman: jazičarka
lang: Macedonian
word: лингви́ст
roman: lingvíst
lang: Macedonian
word: лингви́стка
roman: lingvístka
lang: Manx
word: çhengeyder
lang: Manx
word: glareydagh
lang: Mongolian
word: хэл шинжлэгч
roman: xel šinžlegč
lang: Norman
word: lîndgiste
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lingvist
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: språkforsker
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: språkviter
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: språkvitenskapsmann
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lingvist
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: språkforskar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: språkvetar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: språkvitar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: språkvitskapsmann
lang: Occitan
word: lingüista
lang: Iranian Persian
word: زَبانشِناس
roman: zabân-šenâs
lang: Polish
word: językoznawca
lang: Polish
word: językoznawczyni
lang: Polish
word: lingwista
lang: Polish
word: lingwistka
lang: Portuguese
word: linguista
lang: Romanian
word: lingvist
lang: Romanian
word: lingvistă
lang: Russian
word: лингви́ст
roman: lingvíst
lang: Russian
word: лингви́стка
roman: lingvístka
lang: Russian
word: языкове́д
roman: jazykovéd
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cainntear
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cànanaiche
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: teangaiche
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: teangair
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lìngvist
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lingvìstica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jezikoslóvac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jezikòslōvka
lang: Slovak
word: jazykovedec
lang: Slovak
word: jazykovedkyňa
lang: Slovak
word: lingvista
lang: Slovak
word: lingvistka
lang: Slovene
word: jezikoslovec
lang: Slovene
word: jezikoslovka
lang: Spanish
word: lingüista
lang: Swahili
word: mwanaisimu
lang: Swedish
word: lingvist
lang: Swedish
word: språkforskare
lang: Swedish
word: språkvetare
lang: Tagalog
word: dalubwika
lang: Tajik
word: забоншинос
roman: zabonšinos
lang: Tajik
word: лингвист
roman: lingvist
lang: Tatar
word: телче
roman: telçe
lang: Tatar
word: тел белгече
roman: tel belgeçe
lang: Tatar
word: лингвист
roman: lingwist
lang: Thai
word: นักภาษาศาสตร์
roman: nák-paa-sǎa-sàat
lang: Tibetan
word: སྐད་རིགས་མཁས་པ
roman: skad rigs mkhas pa
lang: Turkish
word: dilbilimci
lang: Turkish
word: lengüist
lang: Ukrainian
word: мовозна́вець
roman: movoznávecʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: лінгві́ст
roman: linhvíst
lang: Ukrainian
word: лінгві́стка
roman: linhvístka
lang: Urdu
word: زَبان دان
roman: zabān dān
lang: Urdu
word: زُبان دان
roman: zubān dān
lang: Uyghur
word: تىلشۇناس
roman: tilshunas
lang: Uzbek
word: tilshunos
lang: Uzbek
word: lingvist
lang: Uzbek
word: tilchi
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhà ngôn ngữ học
lang: Volapük
word: pükavan
lang: Volapük
word: pükavans
lang: Welsh
word: ieithydd
lang: Yiddish
word: לינגוויסט
roman: lingvist
lang: Yiddish
word: שפּראַכפֿאָרשער
roman: shprakhforsher
lang: Yiddish
word: שפּראַכקענער
roman: shprakhkener