לשוני
Hebrew
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From לָשׁוֹן (lashón, “tongue; language”) + ־י (-i, “forming adjectives from nouns”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /le.ʃoˈni/
Adjective
[edit]לְשׁוֹנִי • (l'shoní) (feminine לְשׁוֹנִית, masculine plural לְשׁוֹנִים or לְשׁוֹנִיִּים, feminine plural לְשׁוֹנִיּוֹת)
- lingual (of or related to the tongue)
- linguistic (of or relating to language)
Derived terms
[edit]- דו־לשוני (dú-l'shoní, “bilingual”)
- חד־לשוני (khád-l'shoní, “monolingual”)
- רב־לשוני (ráv-l'shoní, “multilingual”)
- תלת־לשוני (tlát-l'shoní, “trilingual”)