lingu
tongue, language
Latin · lingua
Lingu comes from Latin lingua, "tongue, language". It appears in words about speech, languages, and people who know or study them.
Memory trick
LINGUistics studies the tongue: how language moves in your mouth.
Words from this root
- bilingual (bi + lingu + al) — speaking two languagesद्विभाषी
- bilingualism (bi + lingu + al + ism) — the ability to use two languagesद्विभाषिकता
- lingua (lingua) — a language (as in lingua franca)भाषा
- lingual (lingu + al) — of the tongueजीभ संबंधी
- linguine (lingu + ine) — long flat pasta, "little tongues"लंबा चपटा पास्ता
- linguist (lingu + ist) — a person who studies languagesभाषाविद्
- linguistic (lingu + istic) — relating to languageभाषा संबंधी
- linguistically (lingu + istic + ally) — in terms of languageभाषा की दृष्टि से
- linguistics (lingu + istics) — the science of languageभाषा विज्ञान
- monolingual (mono + lingu + al) — speaking only one languageएकभाषी
- multilingual (multi + lingu + al) — using many languagesबहुभाषी
- trilingual (tri + lingu + al) — using three languagesतीन भाषाओं वाला