English
tablebooktablebook
From table + book.
A compound of table + book
Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’
Latin tabula ‘tablet’
Old English tabele ‘board’
Middle English table ‘the top of a table’
English table
Proto-Germanic *bōks ‘letter’
Proto-West Germanic *bōk ‘inscribed billet, letter’
Old English bōc
Middle English bok ‘a document’
English book
Today it means
noun A notebook.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “tablebook”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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