köken: From Middle Dutch bont, probably from Latin punctus (“striped”) (thus a doublet of punt); compare German bunt. The noun is derived from the adjective: originally the noun referred to furs of variegated color.
fur, pelt · the 皮 radical (portion of a kanji character)
köken: Compound of 毛 (ke, “fur, body hair”) + 皮 (kawa, “skin, pelt”). The kawa changes to gawa as an instance of rendaku (連濁). First cited to a work from 1690, but possibly older, considering the mid-1200s appearance of Chinese-derived homograph 毛皮 (mōhi). This kegawa reading appears to have mostly superseded the mōhi reading.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.? Proto-Germanic *fōdrą Old High German fuotar Middle High German vuoter German Futterbor. Polish futro Borrowed from German Futter. Doublet of futer.
hair (single hair on human or animal) (not used of human head hair except in a technical sense) · hair (small, tiny amount) · colors, stripes
çekim: çoğul karvat · tamlayan karvan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *karva (compare Estonian karv, Livonian kǭra, Veps karv), borrowed from Baltic (compare Lithuanian gaũras). In the first texts, karva is attested only in the sense “color”; in its current meaning, it is first mentioned in a biblical text in 1621. Displaced in the sense “color” by väri.
fur (hairy coat of a mammal) · fur coat (coat made out of fur) · match fixing, fix, spot-fixing, rig (bribery or other illegal practices of influencing the outcome)
çekim: çoğul bundák
köken: First attested in 1723. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Old Hungarian dialectal adjective bonta (“black-and-white striped or spotted”), itself of German origin.