{"id":17504,"date":"2019-02-16T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17504"},"modified":"2019-02-16T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T20:23:23","slug":"cards-charts-papyrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17504","title":{"rendered":"Cards, charts &#038; papyrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/papyrus.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 30px;\" alt=\"\u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \/ Papyrus\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What do <strong>cards<\/strong>, <strong>charts<\/strong> and <strong>papyrus<\/strong> have in common?<\/p>\n<p>The words <strong>card<\/strong> and <strong>chart<\/strong> both come from the Ancient Greek word <em>\u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/em> (kh\u00e1rt\u0113s &#8211; papyrus), via the Old French <em>carte \/ charte \/ chautre<\/em> (charter, record, letter), from Latin <em>charta<\/em> (see below)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/chart#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/strong> comes from <em>\u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03c3\u03c9<\/em> (khar\u00e1ss\u014d &#8211; I scratch, inscribe), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u01f5\u02b0er-<\/em> (to scratch) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CF%87%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82#Ancient_Greek\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/strong> is also the root of the Latin word <em>charta<\/em> (papyrus, paper, poem, a writing, map, the papyrus plant), from which we get words in many languages, including the Italian <em>carta<\/em> (paper, map, menu), the Spanish <em>carta<\/em> (letter, map, menu, playing card), the German <em>Charta<\/em> (charter), the Irish <em>c\u00e1rta<\/em> (card), the Icelandic <em>kort<\/em> (map, card, credit card), and the Czech <em>charta<\/em> (charter).<\/p>\n<p>I discovered this when looking into the origins of the Spanish word <em>cartera<\/em> (wallet, handbag), which comes from the same root, as do the English words cartel, cartography and charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do cards, charts and papyrus have in common? The words card and chart both come from the Ancient Greek word \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 (kh\u00e1rt\u0113s &#8211; papyrus), via the Old French carte \/ charte \/ chautre (charter, record, letter), from Latin charta (see below) [source]. \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 comes from \u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03c3\u03c9 (khar\u00e1ss\u014d &#8211; I scratch, inscribe), from the Proto-Indo-European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,107,116,118,124,127,128,10,15,34,45,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-greek","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-old-french","category-proto-indo-european","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}