Etymology

autofire

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Today it means: A feature on a joystick or gamepad that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button. Full definition →

English fire ← Middle English fyr ← Old English fȳr
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The story

  1. Proto-Hellenic*autós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
  3. Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
  4. Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
  5. Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
  6. Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
  7. Proto-Indo-European*mn̥tós
  8. Proto-Hellenic*mətós
  9. Ancient Greekαὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
  10. Ancient Greekαὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)
  11. Classical Latinautomatum
  12. New Latinautomaticus
  13. Englishautomaticclip.
  14. Englishauto-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  16. Proto-Germanic*fōr
  17. Proto-West Germanic*fuir
  18. Old Englishfȳr
  19. Middle Englishfyr
  20. Englishfire
  21. English todayautofire

From auto- + fire.

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