English
harmoniphone
From its morphology, harmony + -phone.
Formed from harmony + -phone
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to join, fit, fix together’
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Ancient Greek ἁρμονία ‘joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds’
Latin harmonia ‘harmony, concordance of sounds’
Old French harmonie
Middle English armonye
English harmony
Today it means
noun A free-reed musical instrument played with a keyboard, in which the sounds are produced by reeds set in a tube, and vibrating under pressure from the breath; a precursor of the modern melodica.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / harmoniphone