Where does “tabléfono” come from?
tabléfono (Galician) comes from Galician teléfono, from Galician tele, from Galician televisión, from Galician tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
tabléfono (Galician): phablet
Definitions
- phablet
Ancestry of “tabléfono”, step by step
tabléfono traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician teléfono
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | teléfono | telephone, phone |
| 2 | Galician | tele | Clipping of televisión; television |
| 3 | Galician | televisión | television |
| 4 | Galician | tele- | tele- (1 and 2) |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via Galician tableta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | tableta | tablet |