Fellow Wordaholics,

I only recently discovered that we have this Forum available at Wordsmith, or I would have appealed to you earlier. June 30, AWAD gave us the word "telic" and went on to state that "telephone" is derived from the same root. I believe this is wrong, and all of my references, online, in print, and living, concur. The "tele" of telephone is not the same as the "tel" of telic.

I am surprised to see that no one else has commented on this, so perhaps you also believe AWAD's etymology? It is wrong.

Or does someone out there want to try to explain how "telephone" is related to "telic"?

Regards,

Slava