English
grapholinguistics
From grapho- + linguistics.
Formed from grapho- + linguistics
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω ‘to scratch, cut into’
English grapho-
Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s ‘tongue’
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Latin dingua ‘pre-classical form of lingua’
Latin lingua ‘language’
German Linguist
German Linguistik
English linguistics
Today it means
noun The study of writing systems.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / grapholinguistics