Tuesday, April 1, 2008

jaspu - 'passport'


jaspu
jap

'passport'

x1 is a passport issued to x2 (person) by authority x3 allowing x4 (activity)



(cf. pikta, catni, curmi)


Only a few minutes late (due to summer time, I'd still have 22 minutes using winter time ;)) the new word. I think this week the topic will be travel (litru).

Did you know that the predecessor of the travel passport in Europe is believed to be the "Pestbrief", a document for voyagers and merchants issued in the 14th century when the Black Death posed a great threat to cities with foreigners incoming from overseas? I don't have a english source, but maybe you can make some use of the german one at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pestbrief if you're interested.

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