التلغراف=telegraph

التلغراف=telegraph

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

telegraph (n.)

1794, "semaphor apparatus" (hence the Telegraph Hill in many cities), lit. "that which writes at a distance," from Fr. télégraphe, from télé- "far" (from Gk. Tele-/τηλε-; see tele-) + -graphe (see -graphy/γραφή). The signaling device had been invented in France in 1791 by the brothers Chappe, who had called it tachygraphe, lit. "that which writes fast," but the better name was suggested to them by French diplomat Comte André-François Miot de Mélito (1762-1841). First applied 1797 to an experimental electric telegraph (designed by Dr. Don Francisco Salva at Barcelona); the practical version was developed 1830s by Samuel Morse.

tele-

word-forming element meaning "far, far off," from Gk. Tele-/τηλε-, combining form of tele "far off, afar, at or to a distance," related to teleos (gen. Telos/τέλος) "end, goal, result, consummation, perfection," lit. "completion of a cycle," from PIE *kwel-es- (cf. Skt. caramah "the last," Bret. pell "far off," Welsh pellaf "uttermost"), from root *kwel- (see cycle).

graphy

word-forming element meaning "process of writing or recording" or "a writing, recording, or description," from French or Ger. -graphie, from Gk. -graphia /γραφια "description of," from graphein/γράφειν "write, express by written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn," originally "to scrape, scratch" (on clay tablets with a stylus), from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). In modern use, especially in forming names of descriptive sciences.