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.
köken: Inherited from Old French conoissance, from Late Latin cognōscentia, from Latin cognōscēns.
aile: à ma connaissance, à sa connaissance, avoir connaissance, en connaissance de cause, faire connaissance, faire la connaissance, perdre connaissance, prendre connaissance, reconnaissance, reprendre connaissance
letter (document) · menu (list of dishes in a restaurant) · playing card
çekim: çoğul cartas
eş: billete, epístola, misiva, naipe, lista, menú
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs)bor. Latin charta Spanish carta Inherited from Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus”). Cognate with English card and chart.
aile: a la carta, abrecartas, carta abierta, carta al director, carta amorosa, carta astral, carta blanca, carta bomba, carta de ajuste, carta de amor
Las cartas que anunciaron el descubrimiento de las Indias
letter (written communication) · writing (action) · writing system, script
çekim: çoğul пи́сьма · tamlayan письма́
eş: письменность, послание, сообщение, грамота
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pisьmo. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic писмѧ (pismę, “letter (of the alphabet); writing”) (genitive писмене (pismene)).
köken: Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Classical Persian اَدَبِیَّات (adabiyyāt), from Arabic أَدَبِيَّاتٌ f pl (ʔadabiyyātun). By surface analysis, adab + -iyot.
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).
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
çekim: çoğul kirjallisuudet · tamlayan kirjallisuuden
köken: kirjallinen (“literary”) + -uus. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1831, who, according to a story, coined it so that it could be used to name a new organization that would become the Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura).