English
tonify
From tone + -ify.
Formed from tone + -ify
Proto-Indo-European *ten- ‘to stretch’
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Proto-Hellenic *tónos ‘tension’
Ancient Greek τόνος ‘strain, tension, pitch’
Latin tonus ‘sound, tone’
Middle English ton ‘tone, sound’
English tone
Today it means
verb To increase the available energy of
Sources
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Etymograph / tonify