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LANGUAGE
Definition of LANGUAGE
noun
A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced Old English ġeþēode. Mostly, but not fully, displaced native English tongue, in this specific sense, in common as well as academic usage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,454)
How it is built
Same root, LANGUAGE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LANGUAGE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
LANGUAGE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEGGLNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and G appear more than once.
Words that start LANGUA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LANGUAGE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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