| 单词 | daughter language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdaughter language daughter language n. [after German Tochtersprache (1775 or earlier)] Linguistics (in sense 6a) a language descended from an earlier language.See also ancestor language n. at ancestor n. Compounds 2, mother language n. 3. ΚΠ 1784 T. Astle Origin & Progress Writing v. 98 The W is unknown, both to the Latin, and its daughter languages, the French, the Spanish, and the Italian. 1836 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 4 125 In this respect..the Latin is rather similar to her daughter-languages, the Italian, French, &c. 1984 Word 35 131 The passive could have existed in Proto-Indo-European, rather than in its daughter languages. 2011 C. Ehret Hist. & Test. Lang. ii. 28 A Proto-bantu consonant represented by linguists as *b regularly became a w in the daughter language Swahili and dropped out of pronunciation entirely in another daughter language, Gikuyu. < as lemmas |
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