Where does “alphabet radio” come from?
alphabet radio (French) comes from French radio, from French radiotélégraphiste, from French télégraphiste, from French télégraphe, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
alphabet radio (French): spelling alphabet
Definitions
- spelling alphabet
Ancestry of “alphabet radio”, step by step
alphabet radio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | radio | radio, tuner |
| 2 | French | radiotélégraphiste | radiotelegraphist |
| 3 | French | télégraphiste | telegraphist |
| 4 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 5 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via French alphabet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | alphabet | alphabet set of letters considered as a group |
| 2 | Latin | alphabētum | alphabet |
| 3 | Byzantine Greek | ἀλφάβητον | accusative singular of ἀλφάβητος; alphabet |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ἀλφάβητος | alphabet |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ἄλφα | alpha, the name for the first letter Α, α of the... |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤀𐤋𐤐 | thousand; bull, ox, head of cattle |
| 7 | Proto-Semitic | *ʔalp- | thousand |