-phony

Forms nouns related to:

Suffix

  1. Forms nouns related to:

    1. sound or its production

    2. musical structure

    3. language sounds and languages

    4. medical auscultation

    5. voice (Alternative form of -phonia)

Origin

From French -phonie, from Old French -phonie, and its etymon Classical Latin -phōnia, from Ancient Greek -φωνία (-phōnía). By surface analysis, -phone + -y. Doublet of -phonia.

Derived

-phonic