köken: According to the WNT a secondary adaptation of older kopist based on kopie or kopiëren, modern spelling guides invariably treat it as a derivation from kopie. Note also that English copyist may have influenced the spelling. Equivalent to kopie + -ist.
bookkeeper (person responsible for keeping records) · scribe (a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer) · scorekeeper (one who keeps track of the score)
çekim: çoğul kirjurit · tamlayan kirjurin
köken: kirjata (“to log book”) + -uri. Coined by Finnish author, translator and book printer J. F. Granlund in 1849.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin scrībalbor. Polish skryba Learned borrowing from Latin scrība.