Etymograph

English

avoke

Avoke comes from Latin avoco ‘to call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove,…’, from vōx ‘voice, speech’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wekʷ-1‘to speak’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wṓkʷs1‘speech, voice’reconstructedo-grade root noun of *wekʷ-
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wōks1‘voice’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvōx2‘voice, speech’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocō3‘to call’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEavoco4as āvōcō‘to call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove, separate, turn’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1679–1715avoke4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin vox
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin voco
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Latin avoco
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English avoke
  5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, (please specify the page): “And after our long communication and reasoning in the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wekʷ-Wiktionary, Latin vox‘to speak’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wṓkʷsWiktionary, Latin vox‘speech, voice’reconstructedo-grade root noun of *wekʷ-
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wōksWiktionary, Latin vox‘voice’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvōxWiktionary, Latin voco‘voice, speech’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocōWiktionary, Latin avoco‘to call’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEavocoWiktionary, English avokeas āvōcō‘to call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove, separate, turn’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1679–1715avokeWiktionary, English avoke. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, (please specify the page): “And after our long communication and reasoning in the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak’

epic, wight, whit, epos, 29 more

through Proto-Italic *wōks ‘voice’

vocalist, voiceless, vocally, vocalize, 25 more

through Latin vōx ‘voice, speech’

voice, vocal, vox, invocation, vociferous, 25 more

through Latin vocō ‘to call’

invite, invitation, advocate, vocational, vie, provocative, provocation, vocation, vouch, provoke, irrevocable, invoke, provocateur, revocable, 29 more

Today it means

verb To call back again or revoke

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “avoke”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin vox, Latin voco, Latin avoco. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- / avoke

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