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.
Originally the masculine past participle of the verb burt (“to conjure magic”) (q.v.). Just as burt originally meant “to carve (marks, on a tree),” burts was originally “mark(s) carved on a tree.” Cognates include Lithuanian bùrtas (“lot, (pl.) sorcery”).