As you can see, it's basically just us and the Celts (who are ultimately imitating our usage). The Dutch and German words both have the same literal meaning of "thing that shuts"; the source of the Romance terms is Latin obturare "to stop up". Korean 셔터 /syethe/ is a phonetic borrowing from English and Chinese 快門 is literally "quick door".
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Date: 2008-12-13 02:24 pm (UTC)- der Verschluss
- de sluiter
- el obturador
- l'obturador
- l'obturateur
- y caead, y mwgwd
- an chomhla
- 셔터
- 快門 kuàimén
As you can see, it's basically just us and the Celts (who are ultimately imitating our usage). The Dutch and German words both have the same literal meaning of "thing that shuts"; the source of the Romance terms is Latin obturare "to stop up". Korean 셔터 /syethe/ is a phonetic borrowing from English and Chinese 快門 is literally "quick door".