English

Telex

From Telex Printergram, a service offered beginning 15 Aug.

A blend of tele- ‘telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.’ + exchange

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

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

English tele-

Proto-Celtic *kambos ‘twisted, crooked’

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Old French eschangier

Old French eschange ‘exchange’

Anglo-Norman eschaunge

Middle English eschaunge ‘trade’

The story

Subsequently branded in the United States by Western Union and then similarly genericized.

name A convention for encoding Vietnamese text for transmission across telex systems.

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