köken: Deverbal of créner (“to kern”), from crenedes (“notched”), from Vulgar Latin *crinare, probably of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *krini-, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate”). Or, less likely, from Latin cernō (“to separate”), itself from the same root.
aile: cran d'arrêt, être à cran, monter d'un cran
Ce garçon a du cran, pour oser sauter en parachute.
eş: boerenmosterd, boerenradijs, duitse mosterd, meredik, mieriek, mierikswortel
köken: From Middle Dutch meerrâdic. The second element of the compound derives from Proto-West Germanic *rādik (“radish”). The first element is of uncertain origin and is often held to be equivalent to meer (“more”) in a sense corresponding to Latin maior, with the original meaning then being "greater radish". But note the etymology at German Meerrettich, a cognate (from Old High German meriratih).
From Middle High German merretich, from Old High German meriratih; compare Dutch mierik (from Middle Dutch meerrâdic). By surface analysis, Meer (“sea”) + Rettich (“radish”), from the use of Meer to mean “foreign”, as also in Meerkatze, Meerschweinchen. The fact that horseradish is most often eaten in Germany with fish is coincidental, though speakers may make that connection. Alternative…