הִקְלִיד

The verb "הִקְלִיד" (hiklid) is a verb in the hif'il (causative) pattern derived from the word "קְלִיד" (klid, key on a piano or keyboard). The word "klid" itself was established in 1952 by the Music Terminology Committee of the Hebrew Language Committee as the Hebrew term for piano keys, replacing the previous term "מַקֵּשׁ" (makesh). In the 1970s, with the expansion of computer use and the establishment of the term "מִקְלֶדֶת" (mikledet) as a name for the keyboard connected to them, the verb "הִקְלִיד" was derived from the noun "klid," meaning "to input text by pressing the keys of the keyboard." In parallel, the corresponding passive verb "הֻקְלַד" (huklad) was also derived, as well as the verbal noun "הַקְלָדָה" (haklada, which was also called "קְלִידָה" (klida) for a few years). Before the establishment of the verb "hiklid," expressions such as "strike on a typewriter" or "write on a typewriter" were mostly used. Interestingly, European languages use terms based on the word "to write" (write/écrire/schreiben) or "to strike" (type/taper/tippen) to describe the act of typing, while Hebrew created a new verb based specifically on the term for the keyboard itself.