gorilla (largest of the apes, belonging to the genus Gorilla, native to the forests of central Africa and known for their trait of knuckle-walking) · goon, thug (muscular henchman with little intelligence)
çekim: çoğul gorilles
köken: Learned borrowing from New Latin Gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai).
köken: Borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon perjurers. Doublet of ork (“orc”).
köken: Unknown. Generally believed to be based on a calque of Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kynokéfalos, literally “dog-head”). (See cap and câine, cf. Aromanian capdicãne). The -un suffix may indicate an expressive treatment, similar to gărgăun. Also, possibly from a Medieval Latin *capcanus, or linked with an old Turkic kapgan.
köken: One theory suggests a derivation from Russian угри (ugri, “eels”). An alternative theory, based on historical forms of the name (Wogene, Woga) posits a relationship to Finno-Ugric, e.g. Estonian voog (“flow, stream, wave”), from Proto-Finnic *voo, from Proto-Uralic *uwa- (“to flow”), possibly via Livonian [Term?].