Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prelinguistically

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
prelin-guis-ti-cal-ly
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a prelinguistic manner or context; before the acquisition of language.

Etymology

Etymology tree English prelinguistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English prelinguistically From prelinguistic + -ally.

Questions

What does prelinguistically mean?
In a prelinguistic manner or context; before the acquisition of language.
Where does prelinguistically come from?
Etymology tree English prelinguistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English prelinguistically From prelinguistic + -ally.

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