Terminology Origin

Babbling	Middle Low German (babbelen), or an independent English formation, as a frequentative based on the repeated syllable ba, typical of a child's early speech
An early stage of language, starting at the age of about 5 or 6 months, where the child babbles, repetitively combining consonants and vowels into syllable-like sequences
37	Base	Old French, from Latin basis ‘base, pedestal	That part of the domain matrix necessary for understanding the profile of a linguistic unit. For instance, the lexical item hypotenuse profiles the longest side of a right-angled triangle. The base constitutes the larger structure, the right-angled triangle, of which the hypotenuse constitutes a sub-structure.
38	General linguistics	Old French from Latin generalis, from genus, gener- ‘class, race, kind’	it is concerned with all the components of language and also includes historical and comparative studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics…it provides linguistic concepts, models and methods for description of language.
39	Synchronic linguistics	Latin synchronus "simultaneous," from Greek synkhronos "happening at the same time,"	shortly, it studies particular regardless its changes over longer period.
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