The story
- German · derived fromFernseher“TV set”
- English todayfarseer
Modelled after German Fernseher (“TV set”, literally “farseer”), from Fernsehen (“television”, literally “farsee”), calque of French télévision, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “far away”) and Latin visio (“sight”). By surface analysis, far + seer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.