Etymology

reecho

R1E1E1C3H4O1

Today it means: To echo again; to reverberate. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sweh₂gʰ-
  7. Proto-Hellenic*wākʰā́
  8. Ancient Greekἠχή (ēkhḗ)
  9. Ancient Greekἠχώ (ēkhṓ)
  10. Latinēchō
  11. Medieval Latinēccō
  12. Middle Englisheccho
  13. Englishecho
  14. English todayreecho

From re- + echo.

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