Etymograph

English

resound

Resound comes from Latin resonō ‘to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swenh₂-‘to sound’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*swonh₂éyetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*swonaōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsonō‘to make a noise, resound, sound’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresonō‘to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresonārepresent active infinitive of resonō
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600resoner
  8. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400same form
  9. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500resounen‘to return with an echo, resound’
  10. Englishearliest quotation 1579resound

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swenh₂-‘to sound’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*swonh₂éyetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*swonaōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsonō‘to make a noise, resound, sound’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresonō‘to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresonārepresent active infinitive of resonō
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600resoner
  8. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400same form
  9. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500resounen‘to return with an echo, resound’
  10. Englishearliest quotation 1579resound

Earliest quotation: 1579, Immeritô pseudonym; Edmund Spenser, August. Ægloga Octaua.: “The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The…”

Formed from re- + sound ‘to produce a sound’

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- ‘to sound, resound’

Latin sonus ‘sound’

Anglo-Norman soun

Middle English soun

Middle English sownde

English sound

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- ‘to sound’

swan, unison, sonnet, sone, 11 more

through Proto-Italic *swonaō

impersonal, 6 more

through Latin sonō ‘to make a noise, resound, sound’

personal, personnel, parson, consonance, sonorous, 7 more

through Latin resonō ‘to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound’

re, resonance, resonate, resonant

Another origin of resound

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swenh₂-‘to sound’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*swónh₂osreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*swonosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsonus‘sound, noise’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresonus‘echoing, resounding’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400reson
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500resoun
  8. Englishtodayresound

From Late Middle English resoun, reson (‘echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise’), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (‘echoing, resounding’), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (‘sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice’) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)). Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)

Today it means

verb To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- / resound

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