tālrunis
Latvian
noun
Definitions
- telephone set, phone electronic device used for communication between two people
- telephone that part of a telephone set that converts electrical impulses into sound
- telephone number
Etymology
Compound from Latvian tāls (far) + Latvian runa (talk, speech).
Origin
Latvian
runa
Gloss
talk, speech
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- telephone English
- Telephon German
- telefoon Dutch, Flemish
- supertéléphone French
- téléphone French
- téléphonie French
- téléphonique French
- téléphoniste French
- телефо́н Russian
- τῆλε Ancient Greek
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- تلفون Arabic
- telefono Esperanto
- թելեֆոն Armenian
- telefon Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- تلفن Persian
- izruna Latvian
- pretruna Latvian
- runa Latvian
- runība Latvian
- runīgs Latvian
- skaļrunis Latvian
- telefons Latvian
- tāls Latvian
- telefon Turkish
- telefon Faroese
- téléphône Norman
- telefon Azerbaijani
- telefonas Lithuanian
- telfoon Afar
- *tāli- bat-pro