Etymology

autodialer

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Today it means: an electronic device that can automatically dial telephone numbers to communicate between any two points in the telephone, mobile phone and pager networks Full definition →

English dialer ← Middle English diall ← Middle French dya
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tó-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*autós
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
  5. Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
  6. Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
  7. Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
  8. Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
  9. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*mn̥tós
  11. Proto-Hellenic*mətós
  12. Ancient Greekαὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
  13. Ancient Greekαὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)
  14. Classical Latinautomatum
  15. New Latinautomaticus
  16. Englishautomaticclip.
  17. Englishauto-
  18. Proto-Indo-European*dyew-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*dyḗws
  20. Proto-Italic*djous
  21. Latindiēs
  22. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  23. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  24. Latindiālis
  25. Middle Frenchdya
  26. Middle Englishdiall
  27. Englishdial
  28. Englishdialer
  29. English todayautodialer

From auto- + dialer.

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