bókstafur
Icelandic
/ˈpouːk.staːvʏr/
noun
Definitions
- letter of the alphabet
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse bókstafr derived from Proto-Germanic *bōkastabaz (written character, beechwood staff) compound from Icelandic bók (book) + Icelandic stafur (letter, character, cane, staff).
Origin
Icelandic
stafur
Gloss
letter, character, cane, staff
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
字
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- book English
- bookstaff English
- bookstave English
- staff English
- *stebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- bokstav Norwegian Bokmål
- *bōkastabaz Proto-Germanic
- bokstav Norwegian Nynorsk
- bocstæf Old English
- bōcstæf Old English
- bocstaff Middle English
- bók Old Norse
- bókstafr Old Norse
- stafr Old Norse
- bogstav Danish
- aukastafur Icelandic
- bæklingur Icelandic
- bók Icelandic
- bókasafn Icelandic
- bókaskápur Icelandic
- bókastoð Icelandic
- bókaútgáfa Icelandic
- bóknám Icelandic
- bókrolla Icelandic
- handbók Icelandic
- hljóðbók Icelandic
- jólabókaflóð Icelandic
- kennslubók Icelandic
- kortabók Icelandic
- lestrarbók Icelandic
- matreiðslubók Icelandic
- orðabók Icelandic
- orðsifjabók Icelandic
- stafafura Icelandic
- stafur Icelandic
- sálmabók Icelandic
- tölustafur Icelandic
- vasabók Icelandic
- buohstab Old High German
- bókstavur Faroese
- Buschtaf Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- bokstaver, bōkstaver Old Swedish