Where does “carnet” come from?

carnet (French) comes from Middle French quernet — group of four sheets.

carnet (French): booklet, notebook

Definitions

  1. booklet, notebook

Ancestry of “carnet”, step by step

carnet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French quernet

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchquernetgroup of four sheets

via Old French quaern

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchquaern—

Words derived from “carnet”

Every word from Middle French quernet →