Wordwyrt

mobile

/ˈməʊbəl/MOH-buhl
/ˈmoʊbəl/MOH-buhl

Meaningmoveable

Common meaning: free to shift from place to place

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√MU‘move, push, strip off’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 277, p. 740 · scan
  2. Latinmobilis‘moveable’source
  3. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsmoveable → movablemobyll‘movable’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsmovable → free to shift from place to placemobile‘free to shift from place to place’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin mobilis ‘moveable’.

Roots

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