Where does “graphematics” come from?
graphematics (English) comes from English graphematic, from English grapheme, from English -eme, from English phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα, from Ancient Greek φωνέω, from Ancient Greek φωνή, from Proto-Hellenic pʰōnā́.
graphematics (English): graphemics
Definitions
- graphemics
Ancestry of “graphematics”, step by step
graphematics traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English graphematic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | graphematic | Pertaining to graphemes |
| 2 | English | grapheme | A fundamental unit of a writing system,... |
| 3 | English | -eme | Indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of... |
| 4 | English | phoneme | An indivisible unit of sound in a given language.... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | φώνημα | sound made, utterance; thing spoken, speech,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | φωνέω | I produce a sound or tone; I speak loud or... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | φωνή | sound; Usually of the human voice: voice, cry,... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | pʰōnā́ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰoh₂-néh₂ | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |
via English S
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | S | The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this... |