Glottogonic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Related to the origin or primordial development of language; related to glottogony. not-comparable
"Indirectly, this echoes the Neogrammarians, who, upon rejection of the glottogonic separation of stages of language held by their predecessors (cf. 4.10., 5.) affirmed that in the IE languages, "die Schöpfung neuen Stoffes niemals ganz aufgehört hat" ["the development of new grammatical material had never stopped"](Paul 1920 [1898], 175)."
Example
More examples"Indirectly, this echoes the Neogrammarians, who, upon rejection of the glottogonic separation of stages of language held by their predecessors (cf. 4.10., 5.) affirmed that in the IE languages, "die Schöpfung neuen Stoffes niemals ganz aufgehört hat" ["the development of new grammatical material had never stopped"](Paul 1920 [1898], 175)."
Etymology
From glottogony + -ic.
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