Where does “newsletter” come from?
Newsletter derives from English letter and English let, tracing back through Chinese 兒, Latin littera (a written character), Latin -are, Latin -are, Latin -arius, and Latin -us.
newsletter (English): A periodically sent publication containing...
Definitions
- A periodically sent publication containing...
Ancestry of “newsletter”, step by step
newsletter traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English letter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | letter | A symbol in an alphabet; A written or printed... |
| 2 | Middle English | letter | — |
| 3 | Old French | letre | letter |
| 4 | Latin | littera | a letter of the alphabet; handwriting; letter,... |
| 5 | Latin | lītera | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | leitera | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂leyH- | to smear |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | leyh₂- | to die, disapear; to avoid, elude, decline,... |