Etymology

echoic

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to an echo Full definition →

English echo ← Middle English eccho ← Medieval Latin ēccō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sweh₂gʰ-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*wākʰā́
  3. Ancient Greekἠχή (ēkhḗ)
  4. Ancient Greekἠχώ (ēkhṓ)
  5. Latinēchō
  6. Medieval Latinēccō
  7. Middle Englisheccho
  8. Englishecho
  9. English todayechoic

From echo + -ic.

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