telefoon

Dutch (Brabantic)

/teː.ləˈfoːn/

noun

Definitions

telephone

Etymology

Borrowed from French téléphone (telephone) root from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kʷel-

Gloss

turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around

Concept

Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

🙃

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms