English
suprasegment
From supra- + segment.
Proto-Indo-European *úp
…
Proto-Italic *superos ‘upper’
Proto-Italic *superād ‘above’
Old Latin suprād
Latin suprā ‘above, on the top, on the upper side’
English supra-
Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‘to cut’
Proto-Italic *sekaō ‘to cut’
Latin secō ‘to cut’
Latin segmentum ‘a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the…’
English segment
Today it means
noun Any suprasegmental feature of language.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “suprasegment”. 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 / suprasegment