Etymology

annoybot

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Today it means: A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants. Full definition →

English bot ← Czech robot ← Old Czech robota
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  6. Proto-Italic*odjom
  7. Latinodium
  8. Late Latininodiāre
  9. Old Frenchenoiier
  10. Middle Englishanoyen
  11. Englishannoy
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₃erbʰ-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₃órbʰos
  14. Proto-Balto-Slavic*árbas
  15. Proto-Slavic*orbъ
  16. Proto-Slavic*orbiti
  17. Proto-Slavic*orbota
  18. Old Czechrobota
  19. Czechrobota
  20. Czechrobot
  21. Englishrobotclip.
  22. Englishbot
  23. English todayannoybot

From annoy + -bot.

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