Grammar/Glamour #etymology

Do you find grammar glamorous? Well you should! The word grammar comes through Anglo-Norman gramere, Old French gramaire, and Latin grammatica, ultimately from Greek grammatike (tekhne) “(the art) of letters”, from the adjective grammatikos “of letters”, from gramma “something written, letter of the alphabet”. Gramma is related to graphein “to write”, and can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *gerbh- meaning “to scratch”, which also gives us the words graph through Greek, as well as carve through the Germanic branch from Old English ceorfan “to cut”, the idea being that writing was originally carved into wood or stone. From the word grammar we also get the word glamour, first appearing in Scots and then popularized in English by the writings of Sir Walter Scott, a word which originally implied magic, meaning “enchantment” or “spell”, from the notion of arcane learning. Glamour then gained its modern sense from the idea that someone who is glamorous kind of casts a spell on people.