Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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prophet

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See also: 
Panosopher, sage, seer, clairvoyant

Etymology

Middle English prophete ‘person who speaks for God; one who foretells, inspired preacher’, from Old French prophete, profete ‘prophet, soothsayer’, from Latin prophēta, from Greek prophētēs ‘prophet, interpreter of oracles, seer, foreteller’, from pro ‘before’, from PIE base *per-¹, and phētēs ‘speaker’, from phanai ‘to speak’, from PIE base *bhā-².

Common ancestor(s): 
bhā-², per-¹