letter (of the alphabet) · letter (a division unit of a piece of law marked by letters)
çekim: çoğul Buchstaben · tamlayan Buchstabens
eş: Letter, Type
köken: From Middle High German buochstabe, from Old High German *buohstabo (“letter, writing”) (attested only as Old High German buohstab; > German Buchstab), from Proto-West Germanic *bōkstabō, from Proto-Germanic *bōkstabô, a variant of *bōkstabaz. Compare English bookstaff, bookstave.
aile: Buchstäblichkeit
Das römische Zahlensystem […] besteht aus 7 Buchstaben, die zur Bezeichnung von Zahlenwerten verwendet werden: M D C L X V I
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: 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.
letter (letter of the alphabet) · calligraphy (style of handwriting of a person), handwriting · font
çekim: çoğul letras
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese letra, letera, from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).
aile: à letra, boas letras, de letra, letra historiada, letra média, letra moçárabe, letra morta, letra plena, letra promissória, letra toledana
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 (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.