The story
- Proto-Indo-European*wekʷ-
- Proto-Indo-European*wṓkʷs
- Proto-Italic*wōks
- Latinvōx
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinvōcālis
- Old Frenchvoyeul
- Old Frenchvoue
- Middle Englishvowel
- English todayvowel
From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
Words from the same roots
Latinvōcālis all →
vocalvocalis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.