glottogonic, a.
(glɒtəʊˈgɒnɪk)
[f. glotto- (see glosso-) + Gr. γονικ-ός pertaining to production.]
Relating to the origin of language or languages.
| 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 782/1 The general interest still clung to Bopp's old glottogonic problems. 1895 M. Bloomfield in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. XVI. 412 Reduplication, in early glottogonic periods of language, cannot have represented anything more than an attempt to make an idea tarry. |