I Hope You'll Check Out This Book
I hope you'll all check out this book, written by my cousin, the daughter of my dad's sister.
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Break-Lori-Whitwam/dp/1937976513/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346339980&sr=1-1&keywords=make+or+break
WORD HISTORY:
Book-This word goes back to Indo European "bheghos/bhaghos," which meant "beech (tree)." This then gave its Old Germanic offspring "boks," with the same meaning, but also the extended "beechwood, where things are written/carved." This then gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "boc," which meant "written document, written record." Later the idea of fastening records or written things together produced the notion of "book as a collection of writings" we are still familiar with today. The verb was derived from the noun and was part of Old English too. Common in the other Germanic languages: German has "Buch," Low German Saxon has "Book," West Frisian has "boek," Dutch has "boek," Norwegian and Swedish have "bok," Danish has "bog," and Icelandic has "bók."
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Break-Lori-Whitwam/dp/1937976513/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346339980&sr=1-1&keywords=make+or+break
WORD HISTORY:
Book-This word goes back to Indo European "bheghos/bhaghos," which meant "beech (tree)." This then gave its Old Germanic offspring "boks," with the same meaning, but also the extended "beechwood, where things are written/carved." This then gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "boc," which meant "written document, written record." Later the idea of fastening records or written things together produced the notion of "book as a collection of writings" we are still familiar with today. The verb was derived from the noun and was part of Old English too. Common in the other Germanic languages: German has "Buch," Low German Saxon has "Book," West Frisian has "boek," Dutch has "boek," Norwegian and Swedish have "bok," Danish has "bog," and Icelandic has "bók."
Labels: books, English, etymology, family, Germanic languages
posted by Randy at 11:51 AM
2 Comments:
Hope your cousin does well with her book.
Yes, best of luck. That's great about "book." I had no idea it came from the idea of tree wood.
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