Where does “Telefonanruf” come from?

Telefonanruf (German) comes from German telefon — telephone.

Telefonanruf (German): telephone call

Definitions

  1. telephone call

Ancestry of “Telefonanruf”, step by step

Telefonanruf traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German telefon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantelefontelephone

via German Anruf

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanAnrufa call upon, an appeal e.g., to gods, a court, etc
Every word from German telefon
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