etic

[et-ik] Origin

et·ic

[et-ik]
adjective Linguistics.
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
Compare emic.


Origin:
1950–55; extracted from phonetic; see emic

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Etic is always a great word to know.
So is tone. Does it mean:
a movement in pitch serving to distinguish two words otherwise composed of the same sounds
one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen
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-etic

a suffix used in the formation of adjectives: eidetic.

Origin:
< Latin -eticus, Greek -etikos, equivalent to -et-, a formative occurring in some nouns + -ikos -ic
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-etic
suffix meaning "pertaining to," from Gk. -etikos, adj. suffix for nouns ending in -esis.
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etic
1954, coined by K.L. Pike from ending of phonetic.
COLLAPSE
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