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English word phone comes from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-s-ri-
*bʰeh₂-s-ri- (Proto-Indo-European)
*bʰoh₂neh₂ (Proto-Indo-European)
φωνή (Ancient Greek)
phone (English)
(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.