Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA type of sound. · A device that makes a sound. · Forming adjectives: speaking a certain language. · Forming nouns: a speaker of a certain language.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. English -phone From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice, speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₂neh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”); related to fame and fable. Some terms ending in phone, such as textphone, are actually compounds made with phone.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentionφωνήgrc · sound, voice, speech, language
- Derivation mention*bʰoh₂neh₂ine-pro
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