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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ng?gw?j, IPA^(key): /?læ??w?d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [?le???w?d??]
• Hyphenation: lan?guage

Etymology 1

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ?eþ?ode.

Noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

1. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
   • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 ?ISBN, page 240:

     Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

4. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
   • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:

     A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
   • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:

     A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.

   • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:

     Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
   • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94

     In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Hope

     Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]

8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

9. (uncountable) Profanity.

Synonyms

• (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
• (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
• (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
• (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording

Hypernyms

• medium

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Languages

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

   • Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

See also

• bilingual
• lexis
• linguistics
• multilingual
• term
• trilingual
• word

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

References

• language at OneLook Dictionary Search
• language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• langage
• langaige
• languaige

Etymology

From Old French language.

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue

Descendants

• French: langage
  • Haitian Creole: langaj
    • ? English: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??ad???/

Noun

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue, lingue

Descendants

• ? Middle English: language
  • English: language
• Middle French: language
  • French: langage
    • Haitian Creole: langaj
      • ? English: langaj
    • Mauritian Creole: langaz
• ? Old Spanish: lenguage

English

Alternative forms

• daie, daye (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English day, from Old English dæ? (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?og??-o-s, from *d?eg??- (“to burn”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”). Cognate also with Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian ???? (že??, “to burn”) from *degti, ?????? (djógot?, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit ??? (d?há, “heat”), ???? (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin fove? (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).

Latin di?s is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?, IPA^(key): /de?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: dey

Noun

day (plural days)

1. Any period of 24 hours.

2. A period from midnight to the following midnight.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day

3. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

4. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
5. Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

   Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime

   Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

6. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

   • If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.

   Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era

7. A period of contention of a day or less.

8. (meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dei

Translations

See day/translations § Noun.

References

• Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)

1. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,? Monday,? Tuesday,? Wednesday,? Thursday,? Friday,? Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}
• Sabbath
• calendar

Anagrams

• d'ya, y'ad, yad

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *d?y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?j]

Noun

day (definite accusative day?, plural daylar)

1. colt, foal

Declension

Derived terms

• dayça

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) , “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• “day” in Obastan.com.

Cebuano

Etymology

Initial clipping of inday.

Pronunciation

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?d?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: day

Noun

day

1. (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
2. A familiar address to a daughter.

Kalasha

Verb

day

1. I am

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dæ?, from Proto-West Germanic *dag

Alternative forms

• dai, dæi, dey, da?, dæ?, dei, daye, da??, da?h, dai?, *dah

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /daj/, /d?j/
• IPA^(key): /d?i?/

Noun

day (plural dayes or days or dawes)

1. day (composed of 24 hours)

2. day (as opposed to night)

3. daylight, sunlight
4. epoch, age, period
5. A certain day.

Antonyms

• nyght

Related terms

Descendants

• English: day
• Scots: day
• Yola: dei, die

References

• “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

day

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English day

Noun

day (plural days)

1. day
2. (in the definite singular) today