•a horse (or team of horses) that transported a rider or coach etc from one staging post to another · a hotel that is used as a stop on long journeys · relay (electromechanical device)
an express messenger, especially one using relay horses · relay, relay race (competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action) · baton (object transferred between members of a team in a relay race)
çekim: çoğul staféták
köken: Borrowed from Italian staffetta (“courier; relay race; relay team”), also via German Stafette (“courier; relay race”). Chiefly introduced via military jargon. First attested in 1697.
köken: Internationalism, ultimately from French relais, from Old French relaier. * The verb sense is borrowed from English relay (“to relay, to convey: to pass on or transfer”). * The noun sense is borrowed from Dutch relais (“relay”).