English
glossina
Glossina comes from mul-tax Glossina.
- mul-taxmodernGlossina
- Englishearliest quotation 1915glossina
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- mul-taxmodernGlossina
- Englishearliest quotation 1915glossina
Earliest quotation: 1915, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report: “The Sundi plantation employs at present nineteen labourers for…”
Every English word from mul-tax Glossina
Today it means
noun A tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / mul-tax Glossina / glossina