robot English · revision 19

+ ==Etymology==

+ First recorded in English in 1923,^(MW Collegiate)^(OED 1989) from the English translation of Karel Čapek's 1920 play ''R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal Robots'').^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) It is [[bor|cs|robot]], [[der|cs|robota|t=forced labour, drudgery]].^(OED 1989)^(AHD) According to Etymonline, citing Rawson, the word was coined by Karel's brother Josef Čapek.^(Etymonline)

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+ The Czech word is akin to [[goh|arabeit|t=trouble]] (modern German ''Arbeit'' “work”)^(MW Collegiate)^(Etymonline) and [[la|orbus|t=orphaned]].^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}