myEtymology.com: English etymology of housephone

Etymology of the English word housephone

the English word housephone

derived from the English word phone

derived from the English word telephone

using the English prefix tele-

derived from the Greek word tele, τέλε, τῆλε (far "distant)

using the English suffix -phone

derived from the English word house

derived from the Proto-Germanic root *khusan

Word found in Modern English