Etymology

airtone

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Today it means: The Helmholtz resonance of a string instrument, particularly a violin. Full definition →

English tone ← Middle English tone ← Latin tonus
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The story

  1. Latināēr
  2. Old Frenchair
  3. Middle Englishaire
  4. Englishair
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ten-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*tónos
  7. Proto-Hellenic*tónos
  8. Ancient Greekτόνος (tónos)
  9. Latintonus
  10. Middle Englishtone
  11. Englishtone
  12. English todayairtone

From air + tone.

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