English

Gallophone

From Gallo- + -phone.

Formed from Gallo + phone

Latin Gallus ‘a Gaul’

English Gallo

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine’

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή ‘sound’

French téléphone

English telephone

English phone

Today it means

adj Describing a speaker of French or their culture

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Gallophone