linguist

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• Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵhwéh2s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.

180 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: taalkundige — one who studies linguistics
• Afrikaans: linguis — one who studies linguistics
• Afrikaans: taalwetenskaplike — one who studies linguistics
• Albanian: gjuhëtar — one who studies linguistics
• Albanian: gjuhëtare — one who studies linguistics
• Southern Altai: лингвист (lingvist) — one who studies linguistics
• Arabic: لُغَوِيّ (luḡawiyy) — one who studies linguistics
• Arabic: عَالِم لُغَوِيّ (ʕālim luḡawiyy) — one who studies linguistics
• Arabic: لِسَانِيّ (lisāniyy) — one who studies linguistics
• Armenian: լեզվաբան (lezvaban) — one who studies linguistics
• Asturian: llingüista — one who studies linguistics
• Azerbaijani: dilçi — one who studies linguistics
• Azerbaijani: dilşünas — one who studies linguistics
• Azerbaijani: linqvist — one who studies linguistics
• Basque: hizkuntzalari — one who studies linguistics
• Belarusian: мовазна́вец (movaznávjec) — one who studies linguistics
• Belarusian: моваве́д (movavjéd) — one who studies linguistics
• Belarusian: лінгві́ст (linhvíst) — one who studies linguistics
• Belarusian: лінгві́стка (linhvístka) — one who studies linguistics
• Bulgarian: езикове́д (ezikovéd) — one who studies linguistics
• Bulgarian: лингви́ст (lingvíst) — one who studies linguistics
• Bulgarian: лингви́стка (lingvístka) — one who studies linguistics
• Catalan: lingüista — one who studies linguistics
• Cebuano: magdidila — one who studies linguistics
• Chechen: меттанийн ӏилманча (mettaniı̇n ˀilmanča) — one who studies linguistics
• Chinese Mandarin: 語言學家 /语言学家 (yǔyán xuéjiā) — one who studies linguistics
• Chinese Mandarin: 語言學者 /语言学者 (yǔyán xuézhě) — one who studies linguistics
• Czech: jazykovědec — one who studies linguistics
• Czech: jazykovědkyně — one who studies linguistics
• Czech: lingvista — one who studies linguistics
• Czech: lingvistka — one who studies linguistics
• Danish: lingvist — one who studies linguistics
• Danish: sprogforsker — one who studies linguistics
• Danish: sprogvidenskabsmand — one who studies linguistics
• Dutch: taalkundige — one who studies linguistics
• Dutch: linguïst — one who studies linguistics
• Esperanto: lingvisto — one who studies linguistics
• Faroese: málfrøðingur — one who studies linguistics
• Finnish: kielitieteilijä — one who studies linguistics
• Finnish: kielentutkija — one who studies linguistics
• Finnish: lingvisti — one who studies linguistics
• Finnish: lingvistikko — one who studies linguistics
• French: linguiste — one who studies linguistics
• Galician: lingüista — one who studies linguistics
• Georgian: ლინგვისტი (lingvisṭi) — one who studies linguistics
• Georgian: ენათმეცნიერი (enatmecnieri) — one who studies linguistics
• German: Sprachwissenschaftler — one who studies linguistics
• German: Sprachwissenschaftlerin — one who studies linguistics
• German: Sprachwissenschafter — one who studies linguistics
• German: Sprachwissenschafterin — one who studies linguistics
• German: Linguist — one who studies linguistics
• German: Linguistin — one who studies linguistics
• German: Sprachforscher — one who studies linguistics
• German: Sprachforscherin — one who studies linguistics
• Greek: γλωσσολόγος (glossológos) — one who studies linguistics
• Greenlandic: oqaasilerisoq — one who studies linguistics
• Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁן (balshán) — one who studies linguistics
• Hindi: भाषाविद (bhāṣāvid) — one who studies linguistics
• Hungarian: nyelvész — one who studies linguistics
• Hungarian: nyelvtudós — one who studies linguistics
• Icelandic: málvísindamaður — one who studies linguistics
• Interlingua: linguista — one who studies linguistics
• Irish: teangeolaí — one who studies linguistics
• Italian: linguista — one who studies linguistics
• Japanese: 言語学者 (gengogakusha) — one who studies linguistics
• Kazakh: тіл маманы (tıl mamany) — one who studies linguistics
• Kazakh: лингвист (liñvist) — one who studies linguistics
• Khmer: ភាសាវិទូ (phiəsaa vituu) — one who studies linguistics
• Korean: 언어학자 (eoneohakja) — one who studies linguistics
• Kyrgyz: лингвист (lingvist) — one who studies linguistics
• Lao: ນັກພາສາສາດ (nak phā sā sāt) — one who studies linguistics
• Lao: ນາຍພາສາ (nāi phā sā) — one who studies linguistics
• Latvian: valodnieks — one who studies linguistics
• Latvian: lingvists — one who studies linguistics
• Lithuanian: kalbininkas — one who studies linguistics
• Lithuanian: lingvistas — one who studies linguistics
• Lithuanian: kalbotyrininkas — one who studies linguistics
• Macedonian: јазичар (jazičar) — one who studies linguistics
• Macedonian: јазичарка (jazičarka) — one who studies linguistics
• Macedonian: лингви́ст (lingvíst) — one who studies linguistics
• Macedonian: лингви́стка (lingvístka) — one who studies linguistics
• Manx: çhengeyder — one who studies linguistics
• Manx: glareydagh — one who studies linguistics
• Mongolian: хэл шинжлэгч (xel šinžlegč) — one who studies linguistics
• Norman: lîndgiste — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Bokmål: lingvist — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Bokmål: språkforsker — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Bokmål: språkviter — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Bokmål: språkvitenskapsmann — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lingvist — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Nynorsk: språkforskar — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Nynorsk: språkvetar — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Nynorsk: språkvitar — one who studies linguistics
• Norwegian Nynorsk: språkvitskapsmann — one who studies linguistics
• Occitan: lingüista — one who studies linguistics
• Iranian Persian: زَبانشِناس (zabân-šenâs) — one who studies linguistics
• Polish: językoznawca — one who studies linguistics
• Polish: językoznawczyni — one who studies linguistics
• Polish: lingwista — one who studies linguistics
• Polish: lingwistka — one who studies linguistics
• Portuguese: linguista — one who studies linguistics
• Romanian: lingvist — one who studies linguistics
• Romanian: lingvistă — one who studies linguistics
• Russian: лингви́ст (lingvíst) — one who studies linguistics
• Russian: лингви́стка (lingvístka) — one who studies linguistics
• Russian: языкове́д (jazykovéd) — one who studies linguistics
• Scottish Gaelic: cainntear — one who studies linguistics
• Scottish Gaelic: cànanaiche — one who studies linguistics
• Scottish Gaelic: teangaiche — one who studies linguistics
• Scottish Gaelic: teangair — one who studies linguistics
• Serbo-Croatian: lìngvist — one who studies linguistics
• Serbo-Croatian: lingvìstica — one who studies linguistics
• Serbo-Croatian: jezikoslóvac — one who studies linguistics
• Serbo-Croatian: jezikòslōvka — one who studies linguistics
• Slovak: jazykovedec — one who studies linguistics
• Slovak: jazykovedkyňa — one who studies linguistics
• Slovak: lingvista — one who studies linguistics
• Slovak: lingvistka — one who studies linguistics
• Slovene: jezikoslovec — one who studies linguistics
• Slovene: jezikoslovka — one who studies linguistics
• Spanish: lingüista — one who studies linguistics
• Swahili: mwanaisimu — one who studies linguistics
• Swedish: lingvist — one who studies linguistics
• Swedish: språkforskare — one who studies linguistics
• Swedish: språkvetare — one who studies linguistics
• Tagalog: dalubwika — one who studies linguistics
• Tajik: забоншинос (zabonšinos) — one who studies linguistics
• Tajik: лингвист (lingvist) — one who studies linguistics
• Tatar: телче (telçe) — one who studies linguistics
• Tatar: тел белгече (tel belgeçe) — one who studies linguistics
• Tatar: лингвист (lingwist) — one who studies linguistics
• Thai: นักภาษาศาสตร์ (nák-paa-sǎa-sàat) — one who studies linguistics
• Tibetan: སྐད་རིགས་མཁས་པ (skad rigs mkhas pa) — one who studies linguistics
• Turkish: dilbilimci — one who studies linguistics
• Turkish: lengüist — one who studies linguistics
• Udmurt: кылчи (kylći) — one who studies linguistics
• Udmurt: кылтодосчи (kyltodosći) — one who studies linguistics
• Udmurt: лингвист (ľingvist) — one who studies linguistics
• Ukrainian: мовозна́вець (movoznávecʹ) — one who studies linguistics
• Ukrainian: лінгві́ст (linhvíst) — one who studies linguistics
• Ukrainian: лінгві́стка (linhvístka) — one who studies linguistics
• Urdu: زَبان دان (zabān dān) — one who studies linguistics
• Urdu: زُبان دان (zubān dān) — one who studies linguistics
• Uyghur: تىلشۇناس (tilshunas) — one who studies linguistics
• Uzbek: tilshunos — one who studies linguistics
• Uzbek: lingvist — one who studies linguistics
• Uzbek: tilchi — one who studies linguistics
• Vietnamese: nhà ngôn ngữ học — one who studies linguistics
• Volapük: pükavan — one who studies linguistics
• Volapük: pükavans — one who studies linguistics
• Welsh: ieithydd — one who studies linguistics
• Yiddish: לינגוויסט (lingvist) — one who studies linguistics
• Yiddish: שפּראַכפֿאָרשער (shprakhforsher) — one who studies linguistics
• Yiddish: שפּראַכקענער (shprakhkener) — one who studies linguistics
• Bulgarian: лингви́ст (lingvíst) — a person skilled in languages
• Cebuano: magdidila — a person skilled in languages
• Finnish: kieliniekka — a person skilled in languages
• Finnish: kielimies — a person skilled in languages
• Hungarian: idegen nyelveket beszélő ember (jól) — a person skilled in languages
• Hungarian: idegen nyelveken tudó ember (jól) — a person skilled in languages
• Polish: lingwista — a person skilled in languages
• Polish: lingwistka — a person skilled in languages
• Polish: poliglota — a person skilled in languages
• Polish: poliglotka — a person skilled in languages
• Portuguese: linguista — a person skilled in languages
• Romanian: poliglot — a person skilled in languages
• Russian: полигло́т (poliglót) — a person skilled in languages
• Russian: лингви́ст (lingvíst) — a person skilled in languages
• Russian: лингви́стка (lingvístka) — a person skilled in languages
• Finnish: tulkki — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Galician: tradutor — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Hungarian: fordító — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Hungarian: tolmács — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Japanese: 翻訳者 (hon'yakusha) — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Japanese: 翻訳家 (hon'yakuka) — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Japanese: 通訳 (tsūyaku) — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Portuguese: intérprete — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Portuguese: tradutor — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Romanian: translator — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces
• Romanian: interpret — a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces