köken: From Middle High German brief, from Old High German briaf, which is borrowed from Latin breve, a neuter form of brevis (“short”). Cognates include Middle Dutch brief, Dutch brief, Old Norse bréf, Old Saxon brēf (all of them borrowed from Latin) and English brief.
character, letter (symbol for a word or a sound) · type, typeface, font, print · character, nature, disposition, temper (distinctive psychological attitudes, qualities and features of a person or animal)
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Uyghur خەت Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: Etymology tree Arabic خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ)bor. Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt)bor. Bashkir хат Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).
köken: From Middle Dutch boecstaef, boecstave, from Old Dutch buocstaf, *buocstavo, from Proto-Germanic *bōkastabô, *bōkastabaz (“letter, written symbol”), equivalent to boek + staaf. Compare German Buchstabe, English bookstave.
köken: Compound of 手 (te, “hand”) + 紙 (kami, “paper”). The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁). An etymologically unrelated false friend of Chinese 手紙 /手纸 (shǒuzhǐ).
köken: First attested in the Eoje naehun, (御製內訓 / 어제내훈), 1475 , as Middle Korean 글시 (Yale: kulsi). Equivalent to 글 (geul, “writing”) + 쓰— (sseu-, “to write”) + —이 (-i).
letter (written or printed communication) · letter (paper on which such a communication is written) · leaf (part of a plant)
çekim: çoğul listy · tamlayan listu
eş: epistoła
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyd-der. Proto-Slavic *lȋstъ Old Polish list Polish list Inherited from Old Polish list. Etymology 1, noun sense 3 was displaced by liść.
aile: list gończy, list intencyjny, list motywacyjny, list otwarty, list pasterski, list polecający, list uwierzytelniający, list zastawny, list żelazny, listonosz
letter (symbol in an alphabet) · alphabet, ABC (ordered set of letters used in a language) · elements, rudiments, ABC (basic tenets of an area of knowledge)
çekim: çoğul aakkoset · tamlayan aakkosen
köken: aa + -kko + -nen; from aa (“(the letter) A”), the name of the letter A in Finnish. Coined by Finnish priest Anders Gabriel Wikman in 1829.