Eeyek Mayek

letter (n.1)  
c.1200, “graphic symbol, alphabetic sign, written character,” from Old French letre (10c., Modern French lettre) “character, letter; missive, note,” in plural, “literature, writing, learning,” from Latin littera (also litera) “letter of the alphabet,” of uncertain origin, perhaps via Etruscan from Greek diphthera “tablet,” with change of d- to l- as in lachrymose. In this sense it replaced Old English bocstƦf, literally “book staff” (compare German Buchstabe “letter, character,” from Old High German buohstab, from Proto-Germanic *bok-staba-m). Latin littera also meant “a writing, document, record,” and in plural litterƦ “a letter, epistle,” a sense first attested in English early 13c., replacing Old English Ʀrendgewrit, literally “errand-writing.”
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Read Creation of Man According to Ancient Kanglei Philosophy (with a focus on Eeyek)
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