Sentence examples for linguistic origin from inspiring English sources

'linguistic origin' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when talking about the source of a certain language or a certain word. For example, "The words 'taco' and 'avocado' have a linguistic origin in the Spanish language."

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Its name, whose meaning and linguistic origin we do not know, is Blo'thaah.

He also described its linguistic origin as being taken from the spanish word flaco, meaning "skinny", declaring to the room, "I'm skinny and pretty, what can I say?" As someone who spends most of his time as part of a mob, it's no surprise that A$AP's the kind of guy that enjoys having his friends close.

Also worth mentioning is an essay on the psychology of music in England (1885) and his book Die Anfänge der Musik (1911) where he discussed, in relation to Spencer and Darwin, the thesis of the linguistic origin of music.

To what extent can geographic or linguistic origin explain individual membership to genetic clusters?

However considering linguistic origin in addition to geographic origin improved the prediction of genetic structure.

Subjects were kept blind to the linguistic origin of the stimuli, and to the purpose of the study before the experiment, and were instructed to respond as quickly as possible.

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During the World Wars, sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage" and hamburgers were dubbed "liberty steaks," as a protest against their German geographic and linguistic origins.

The question of linguistic origins is always worth filing, if only because so many people who use language are so fanatically determined both to advance its boundaries and claim the credit for this extension.

Specifically, they are Yankees, a term with obscure linguistic origins (having something to do with nineteen-fifties America and greaser style) which connotes rebellious truants — the boys on motorcycles, the girls in jersey dresses, with bleached hair and rhinestone-encrusted mobile phones.

Arguing, in this regard, for the eternality of language, Kumārila challenged (chiefly Buddhist and Nyāya) proponents of contract- or convention-theories of linguistic origins to explain how any particular linguistic act could coherently be imagined to be the first such act.

The ethno-linguistic origins of the population living along the Thai-Burmese border are diverse; the largest ethnic group, on both sides of the north-western border, is Sgaw Karen.

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