Etymograph

English

telemessage

From tele- + message.

Formed from tele- + message

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’

Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’

English tele-

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- ‘to exchange’

Latin mittō ‘to send’

Early Medieval Latin missāticum

Old French message

Middle English message

English message

Today it means

noun A kind of telegram initially sent out electronically and then printed for delivery to the recipient.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “telemessage”. 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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