Etymograph

English

prevocal

From pre- + vocal.

Formed from pre- + vocal

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak, to sound out’

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Proto-Italic *wōks ‘voice’

Latin vōx ‘a voice, sound, tone’

Latin vōcālis ‘uttering a voice, sounding, speaking’

Middle English vocal

English vocal

Today it means

adj Synonym of prevocalic.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “prevocal”. 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.

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