excrement of human or animal origin; dropping; turd; dung · a miserable or dangerous situation; shit
çekim: çoğul crottes
köken: Attested since the late 12th century as crotes de chievres (“goat droppings”); probably from Old Dutch *krotta, deduced from Rhine Franconian krotz (“poorly molded brick; thick earthclod; shriveled fruit; remnant”), with the original meaning being “ballshaped excrement”; compare Middle English crote (“small piece; fragment”). Unrelated to Middle Dutch krotte (“mud besmeared on clothing”), which…
aile: crotte de bique, crotte de nez, crotter, décrotter, encrotter
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”), with similar words across Indo-European branches, albeit with various phonetic difficulties. Compare Welsh troeth (“urine”), Hittite [script needed] (ištar(k)-, “to ail, afflict”), Lithuanian ter̃šti (“to soil”), as well as Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”).
köken: From Old Norse lortr (“excrement, feces”), akin to Faroese lortur, Icelandic lortur. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“crooked; bent; left; left-handed; dastardly”). If so, then related also to English lirt (“to trick; deceive”), German dialectal lurz (“left; bad; wicked”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Tai *C̬.qɯjꟲ (“excrement”). In Southern Tai, cognate with Northern Thai ᨡᩦ᩶, Lao ຂີ້ (khī), Lü ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²), Shan ၶီႈ (khīi), Ahom 𑜁𑜣 (khī). In Northern Tai, cognate with Zhuang haex, Saek ไกฺ.
köken: Ačaṙyan derives from Old Armenian նեխ (nex, “rottenness; rotten”), but according to Vogt the borrowing is in the opposite direction. Possibly a Proto-Georgian-Zan *nexw- is reconstructible, with Old Georgian სა-ნეხუ-ე-ჲ (sa-nexu-e-y, “garbage, garbage heap”), Mingrelian სა-ნახვ-ერ-ო (sa-naxv-er-o, “dung heap”) as cognates. Note also Chechen нех (nex), Ingush нувх (nuvx, “garbage”).