Etymology

vocalness

V4O1C3A1L1N1E1S1S1

Today it means: The quality of being vocal; outspokenness. Full definition →

English vocal ← Middle English vocal ← Latin vōcālis
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wekʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wṓkʷs
  3. Proto-Italic*wōks
  4. Latinvōx
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. Latinvōcālis
  8. Middle Englishvocal
  9. Englishvocal
  10. English todayvocalness

From vocal + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.