clay used in pottery · ceramics, potteryware · shard (broken pieces of pottery)
çekim: çoğul saxsılar · tamlayan saxsının
köken: From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (saqsı); cognate with Karakhanid سَسِق (sasiq, “potteryware”), Turkish saksı, Uzbek sassiq (“stinky”). Perhaps the Old Anatolian term is a metathesised form of *sas-kï, ultimately from Proto-Common Turkic *sasï- (“become rotten; stink; give off smoke”), in turn from < *sassï < *sarsï < *sar (“swamp, mud”), a by-form of *siāŕ (“marsh, dirt”), whence…
faience (a type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic) · a decorative object made from faience · made from faience
çekim: çoğul fajanszok
köken: Internationalism, primarily via German Fayence. Compare English faience and French faïence. Coined in French, by ellipsis of vaisselle de Faïence (“vessel of Faenza”). Ultimately from the name of the Italian city Faenza. First attested in 1786.