Actually DeBroglie stated that all particles have a wave and particle nature. It's a direct outgrowth of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the fact that the more precisely you know where a particle is, the less precisely you know how fast it's moving and vice versa, and the order of the uncertainty is what manifests itself as wave nature.
Our language is completely inadequate for explaining what's really going on. I don't know if there are any human languages that are.