Where does “playbook” come from?
Playbook comes from English play and book, where book derives from Middle English booke, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₂ǵos meaning beech tree, whose wood was used for writing tablets.
playbook (English): A book containing the text of a play or plays; A...
Definitions
- A book containing the text of a play or plays; A...
Ancestry of “playbook”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | play | To act in a manner such that one has fun; to... |
| 2 | Middle English | pleye | Happiness, mirth, jolliness, or gaiety; Fun,... |
| 3 | Old English | pleġa | exercise |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | plegō | care; an exercise; a game |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -ō | Creates adverbs from adjectives; Creates agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -ô | -ly; Forms agent nouns, often from the zero-grade... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |