sublingual
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prettygoodwordsublingual (suhb-LING-gwuhl) - adj., situated or pertaining to beneath the tongue.
So no, not, something prior to language. Synonym: subglossal, but that's not as common, in part because of medications administered under the tongue are called sublingual. Borrowed around 1660 out of Late Latin sublinguālis, coined from Latin roots sub-m, under + lingua, tongue, which also by extension came to mean speech, language, from Old Latin dingua (yes, apparently we have an attestation of that form), from PIE root *dnghwa-, the source of tongue.
---L.
So no, not, something prior to language. Synonym: subglossal, but that's not as common, in part because of medications administered under the tongue are called sublingual. Borrowed around 1660 out of Late Latin sublinguālis, coined from Latin roots sub-m, under + lingua, tongue, which also by extension came to mean speech, language, from Old Latin dingua (yes, apparently we have an attestation of that form), from PIE root *dnghwa-, the source of tongue.
---L.
