Where does “電話” come from?

電話 (Chinese Mandarin) comes from Japanese 電話, from Japanese 電, from Middle Chinese 電.

Ancestry of “電話”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese電話telephone; telephone call; phone call; call; to...
2Japanese電lightning
3Middle Chinese電—

Words derived from “電話”

Every word from Middle Chinese 電 →Every word from Japanese 電 →Every word from Japanese 電話 →
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