Etymology

aprosody

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Today it means: The lack of variations in speech, such as speed, tone, and emphasis. Full definition →

English prosody ← Middle French prosodie ← Latin prosōdia
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*ə-
  4. Ancient Greekἀ- (a-)
  5. Englisha-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  9. Proto-Indo-European*próti, *préti
  10. Ancient Greekπρός (prós)
  11. Proto-Hellenic*awéidō
  12. Ancient Greekᾰ̓είδω (ăeídō)
  13. Ancient Greekᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)
  14. Ancient Greekᾠδή (ōidḗ)
  15. Ancient Greekπροσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)
  16. Latinprosōdia
  17. Middle Frenchprosodie
  18. Englishprosody
  19. English todayaprosody

From a- + prosody.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.