daughter language
daughter language · daughter languages
донька, дочка
дочерний язык
Tochtersprache
A language which genetically descends from an earlier parent languageA language which genetically descends from an earlier parent language.
» A daughter language descends from another language - for example, Hindi is a daughter language of Sanskrit.
Meaning
1 sensesA language which genetically descends from an earlier parent language.
English is a daughter language of Old English.
French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are daughter languages of Latin.
Tochtersprache
дочерний языкdočernij jazyk
Examples
1 sentencesA daughter language descends from another language - for example, Hindi is a daughter language of Sanskrit.
Translations
5 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
language which genetically descends from earlier, parent language:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
language which genetically descends from earlier, parent language:
Origin
Probably a calque of German Tochtersprache.Probably a calque of German Tochtersprache.
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Forms
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