köken: Inherited from Old French quaer, quaïer, from Latin quaternus. Doublet of caserne, from Old Occitan, and quaterne, a later borrowing from Latin. See also the old diminutive carnet.
köken: From Middle Dutch blat, from Old Dutch *blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-tó-m, from *bʰleh₃-. Compare German Blatt, English blade.
De bladeren begonnen al te verkleuren en enkele zijn reeds gevallen.
köken: From the adjective έγγραφος. From the plural τὰ ἔγγραφα of the Koine Greek ἔγγραφος, from ἐγγράφω. Morphologically, from εν- (εγ-) + γράφ(ω) + -o.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian کاغذ, from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼲𐼹𐼰 (kʾɣδʾ /kāγaδā/), perhaps a borrowing from Old Chinese 紙 (OC *kjeʔ). Compare Assamese কাগজ (kagoz), Bengali কাগজ (kagoj), Bhojpuri कागज (kāgaj), Gujarati કાગળ (kāgaḷ), Kannada ಕಾಗದ (kāgada), Marathi कागद (kāgad), Odia କାଗଜ (kāgaja), Punjabi ਕਾਗ਼ਜ਼ (kāġaz), Marwari कागद (kāgad), Tamil காகிதம் (kākitam), Telugu కాగితము (kāgitamu). Also…
köken: Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).