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Primary Base | * |
Descendants
qlyf* | Letter | |
* | Misnomer | Misapplied or inappropriate naming or designation. |
* | Name | |
* | Neology | Introduction or use of new words. |
* | Nomenclature | A set or system of names or terms. |
* | Phrase | |
solo* | Solecism | Nonstandard or ungrammatical usage of language or logic. |
* | Specific Languages | |
* | Spoken Language | |
* | Style | |
verb* | Word | |
* | Written Language | |
Cross-Reference
Notes
Grammar
Grammar, syntax, analysis, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive; syllabication or syllabification, paradigm, syllepsis, synopsis; inflection, case, declension, conjugation.
Language synonyms
Phraseology [See Style]; speech [See Speech]; tongue, lingo [chiefly humorous or contemptuous], vernacular; mother -, vulgar -, native- tongue; household words; King’s or Queen’s English; dialect, brogue, patois [See Neology]; idiom, idiotism.
confusion of tongues, Babel; pasigraphie [F.], pasigraphy; universal language, Volapük, Esperanto, Ido; pantomime (signs) [See Indication].
LINGUISTICS, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, comparative philology; Grimm’s law, Verner’s law; comparative grammar, phonetics; chrestomathy; paleology or palæology, paleography or palæography.
onomatopœia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation.
LITERATURE, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [F.], muses, humanities, litterœ humaniores [L.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius -, spirit -, idiom- of a language; scholarship (knowledge) [See Knowledge].
LINGUIST (scholar) [See Scholar].