{"id":17589,"date":"2019-03-08T22:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2019-03-08T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T22:05:57","slug":"books-books-books-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17589","title":{"rendered":"Books, books, books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/kniha.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"Book-related words in Czech\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One of the Czech words I learnt this week is <strong>knihkupectv\u00ed<\/strong> [\u02c8k\u0272\u026axkup\u025bt\u0361stvi\u02d0], which means bookstore \/ bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of a number of words that come from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/kniha#Czech\"><strong>kniha<\/strong><\/a> (book), including :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>knihkupec<\/strong> &#8211; book seller<\/li>\n<li><strong>knihovna<\/strong> &#8211; library, bookcase<\/li>\n<li><strong>knihovn\u00edk<\/strong> &#8211; librarian<\/li>\n<li><strong>knihomol<\/strong> &#8211; bibliophile, book lover, bookworm<\/li>\n<li><strong>kn\u00ed\u017eka<\/strong> \/ <strong>kn\u00ed\u017ee\u010dka<\/strong> &#8211; diminutives of book<\/li>\n<li><strong>kni\u017en\u00ed z\u00e1lo\u017eka<\/strong> &#8211; bookmark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The word <strong>kniha<\/strong> comes from the Proto-Slavic <em>*k\u044aniga<\/em> (book), but beyond that its origins are shrouded in the mists of time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6287\">More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Czech it&#8217;s easy to see the connection between these words, which makes learning them easier. In English there are book-related words derived from Old English (book), Latin (library) and Greek (bibliophile).<\/p>\n<p>In Welsh most book-related words share a common root:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>llyfr<\/strong> [\u026c\u0268\u031evr \/ \u026c\u026avr\u0329] &#8211; book<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfygell<\/strong> &#8211; library<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfygellydd<\/strong> &#8211; librarian<\/li>\n<li><strong>siop llyfrau<\/strong> &#8211; bookshop \/ bookstore<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfraf \/ llyfro \/ llyfru<\/strong> &#8211; to book, record, register, enrol<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfran<\/strong> &#8211; small book, booklet, pamphlet<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfreugar<\/strong> &#8211; fond of books<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfrgarwr<\/strong> &#8211; bibliophile, bookworm<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfrbryf<\/strong> &#8211; bookworm<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfrgaes<\/strong> &#8211; bookcase<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfrgaer<\/strong> &#8211; bookkish, studious<\/li>\n<li><strong>llyfrnod<\/strong> &#8211; bookmark<\/li>\n<li><strong>cyfriflyfr<\/strong> &#8211; ledger<\/li>\n<li><strong>dyddlyfr<\/strong> &#8211; diary, daybook<\/li>\n<li><strong>gwerslyfr<\/strong> &#8211; textbook<\/li>\n<li><strong>llawlyfr<\/strong> &#8211; handbook, manual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The word <strong>llyfr<\/strong> was borrowed from the Latin <em>liber<\/em> (book; the inner bark of a tree), which is also the root of the English word library, and words for book in many other European languages [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/llyfr\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Czech words I learnt this week is knihkupectv\u00ed [\u02c8k\u0272\u026axkup\u025bt\u0361stvi\u02d0], which means bookstore \/ bookshop. It&#8217;s one of a number of words that come from kniha (book), including : knihkupec &#8211; book seller knihovna &#8211; library, bookcase knihovn\u00edk &#8211; librarian knihomol &#8211; bibliophile, book lover, bookworm kn\u00ed\u017eka \/ kn\u00ed\u017ee\u010dka &#8211; diminutives of book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,107,118,10,15,47,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-slavic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589","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=17589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}