Etymograph

English

Oldspeak

From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A compound of old + speak

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

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Proto-Germanic *aldaz ‘grown-up’

Proto-West Germanic *ald

Old English ald ‘old’

Middle English old ‘elderly’

English old

Old English specan ‘to speak’

Middle English speken ‘to speak’

English speak

The story

From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Today it means

name Synonym of Standard English.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Oldspeak