Etymograph

English

interlinguistics

From inter- + linguistics.

A compound of inter- + -ist + linguist + -ic + -ics + linguistics

Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s ‘tongue’

Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā ‘tongue’

Latin dingua ‘pre-classical form of lingua’

Latin lingua ‘the tongue’

English linguist

Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s ‘tongue’

Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā ‘tongue’

Latin dingua ‘pre-classical form of lingua’

Latin lingua ‘the tongue’

English linguist

English linguistics

Today it means

noun The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.

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

Etymograph / interlinguistics