Where does “speechreading” come from?

speechreading (English) comes from English speech, from Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku — speech, language.

speechreading (English): lipreading

Definitions

  1. lipreading

Ancestry of “speechreading”, step by step

speechreading traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English speech

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishspeechThe faculty of uttering articulate sounds or...
2Middle Englishspechespeaking, speech; dialogue, discussion,...
3Old Englishspǣċ—
4Proto-West Germanic*sprākuspeech, language

via English Reading

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishReadingThe process of interpreting written language
2Middle Englishreding—
3Old Englishrǣdende—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku →