Etymology

tonoexodus

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Today it means: A process in which a language loses tones. Full definition →

English tonogenesisinflu. ← Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos) ← Proto-Hellenic *tónos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ten-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tónos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*tónos
  4. Ancient Greekτόνος (tónos)
  5. Englishtono-
  6. EnglishExodus
  7. Englishtonogenesisinflu.
  8. English todaytonoexodus

From tono- + Exodus, by analogy with tonogenesis, reinterpreting the suffix -genesis as the book of the Bible, Genesis, which is directly followed by Exodus.

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