köken: Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet gaine. Compare also gouine, which may be borrowed from Breton gouin, itself ultimately borrowed from the Latin. Also a doublet of gaine (“sheath”), which was inherited from the Latin.
köken: Inherited from Latin vāgīna (with change of /w/ to /ɡw/ influenced by Germanic). Compare French gaine, Spanish vaina, Sicilian vajina, Portuguese bainha. Doublet of vagina.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Oghuz اَمْ (am), from Proto-Turkic *am. Cognate with Turkish and Turkmen am. Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.
köken: From Middle Dutch schêde, from Old Dutch *skētha, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz. Cognate with Low German scheed, German Scheide, English sheath, Danish skede, Norwegian skjede, Icelandic skeið.
köken: From reconstructed Middle Korean *볻 (*pwot), with suffix -이 (-i, noun suffix). See Yukjin dialect 보대 (bodae, “vulva”), which was a dialect that did not undergo palatalization of /t/. Cognate with Jeju 보뎅이 (bodeng'i, “vulva”) and probably also Japanese 陰 (hoto, “id.”), historically from Old Japanese *potə. Compare also 불 (bul, “genitalia”), surviving in fossilized form in words such as 불알 (bural,…
a sheath, a scabbard (for knives or swords) · a vagina
çekim: çoğul slidor · tamlayan slidas
köken: From Old Swedish slidh, from Old Norse slíðr (“sword”), related to the verb slíta (“to tear apart, slice”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną. Cognate to English slit.
vagina (passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals) · sheath, holster, scabbard
çekim: çoğul pochwy · tamlayan pochwy
eş: wagina, saya
köken: Inherited from Old Polish pochwa, from Proto-Slavic *poxъva. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin vāgīna (“scabbard”). Cognate with Belarusian по́хва (póxva), Czech pochva, and Ukrainian пі́хва (píxva).