köken: From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.
barrage, dyke, embankment, floodbank, levee, stopbank (embankment to prevent inundation) · causeway · cofferdam (empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship)
çekim: çoğul groble · tamlayan grobli
eş: koferdam
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *grobja Polish grobla Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grobja.
embankment, dyke, bank (steep slope of earth, sand, etc.) · terrace, bed (raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides) · bench (in stepped excavation)
çekim: çoğul penkeret · tamlayan penkeren
köken: Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (compare Old East Norse *benkr), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of penkki, pankko, and penkka.
dam (a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow) · impediment, obstacle · hurdle (an artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race)
çekim: çoğul gátak
köken: Borrowed from a South Slavic language, e.g. Serbo-Croatian gat, or from Slovak hať. Ultimately, from Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”).
köken: From Middle English cauce, from Anglo-Norman caucee (“route, highway”), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”). [from 16th c.]