mother tongue · ancestral language (language that is the ancestor of another language)
çekim: çoğul moedertalen
köken: Compound of moeder (“mother”) + taal (“language”). The sense “mother tongue” was initially only used as a genitival noun phrase moeders taal, moederstaal, whence moerstaal; spellings without interfix -s- become normal for this sense in the 18th century.
köken: From anya (“mother”) + nyelv (“language, tongue”).
aile: anyanyelvi, anyanyelvű
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Etimoloji
From Old Swedish modhor mal, modhers mal, a calque of Medieval Latin lingua materna, equivalent to moder (“mother”) + -s- + mål (“language”). Compare Icelandic móðurmál. First attested in c. 1385