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pretelephone

adj

Etymology

From pre- + telephone.

  1. borrowed from téléphone — “kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes”
  2. derived from *bʰeh₂-✻ — “to say; to speak”
  3. derived from φωνή — “sound; voice”
  4. derived from *kʷelh₁-✻ — “to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”
  5. derived from τῆλε — “afar, far away, far off”
  6. prefixed as pretelephone — “pre + telephone”

Definitions

  1. Before the invention or spread of the telephone.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA