The story
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰōnā́
- Ancient Greekφωνή (phōnḗ)
- Ancient Greekφωνέω (phōnéō)
- Ancient Greekφώνημα (phṓnēma)
- Englishphonemeclip.
- English today-eme
Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Thus from a hypothetical suffix -ημα (-ēma), formed from -έω (-éō) + -μα (-ma).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφώνημα all →
phonemechroneme
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.