Etymology

radioland

R1A1D2I1O1L1A1N1D2

Today it means: The radio broadcasting industry. Full definition →

English land ← Middle English lond ← Old English land
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The story

  1. Latinradius
  2. Englishradio-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  4. Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
  5. Frenchtélé-
  6. Frenchtélégraphe
  7. Englishtelegraph
  8. Englishtelegraphy
  9. Englishradiotelegraphyclip.
  10. Englishradio
  11. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  12. Proto-Germanic*landą
  13. Proto-West Germanic*land
  14. Old Englishland
  15. Middle Englishlond
  16. Englishland
  17. English todayradioland

From radio + -land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.