Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?
Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?
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Pretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it's posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it's posh. But at the end of the day it's in the same spirit as "the ABC", or Latin "abecedarius".
66 0 ReplyAnd the Greeks took it from the Phoenicians where it was Alep Bet (almost identical to the Hebrew Aleph Beth).
And these are words that start with the sound of the letter. Aleph means Ox and Beth is house.
14 0 ReplyIt's also "ABC" ("ábécé") in Hungarian. (And I bet in a lot of other languages too.)
11 0 ReplyThen why do Abacuses help us count instead of spell? 🤔
9 0 ReplyAbacus comes from the Greek "Abak" meaning board or slab.
6 0 ReplyCoincidence. The word backtracks to Greek ᾰ̓́βᾰξ / ábax "board, slab", it doesn't have to do with ABC.
6 0 Reply- Abaci
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