History

The Ancient Greek word ???????? is an agent noun of the verb ??????? with a meaning "to sharpen, to whet", and also "to engrave, to carve", from a Proto-Indo-European root gher- "cut" also continued in Irish gearr and English gash, which is perhaps an early loan ultimately from the same Greek root.

A ???????? [characteer] is thus an "engraver", originally in

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