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Coined by Atis Kronvalds in 1869, derived from vēstīt(“to herald, to announce”) (compare vēsts(“news”)). Its form was influenced by Ancient Greekἐπιστολή(epistolḗ, “letter; command, commission; will”). Krovanlds proposed other related words (vēstulēties “to correspond, exchange letters,” and also vēstulēšanās, vēstulējums, vēstulība) which did not find acceptance. Before Kronvalds' vēstule, the concept of “letter” was expressed as (rakstīta) grāmata; the term breve (from Italianbreve(“short writing”), from Latinbrevis(“short”); compare GermanBrief), introduced by the journal Pēterburgas Avīzes (probably by J. Alunāns), did not find acceptance either.[1]
