Where does “speechreading” come from?
speechreading (English) comes from English speech, from Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku.
speechreading (English): lipreading
Ancestry of “speechreading”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | speech | The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or... |
| 2 | Middle English | speche | speaking, speech; dialogue, discussion,... |
| 3 | Old English | spǣċ | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | — |