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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of linguistic change over time in language or in a particular language or language family, sometimes including the reconstruction of unattested forms of earlier stages of a language.
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- noun linguistics The scientific study of
language change .
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- noun the study of linguistic change
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