a projection or spur on a wall, generally in the form of an "S", supporting a cornice, balcony etc. · projecting piece of timber in the form of a cantilever arm · piece of furniture abutted against a wall, serving as adornment and for the presentation of other fitments (such as pieces in bronze, clocks, vases etc.)
çekim: çoğul consoles
eş: corbeau, modillon
köken: Probably a shortened from consolateur, denoting the same architectural element, ultimately from consoler (“to console, to comfort”).
‘Puis, à mesure que la charpente métallique montait, […] les consoles et les corbeaux se chargeaient de sculptures.’
köken: A word from the same stem as heleä (“bright (e.g. of a sound)”) and helistä (“to clink, jingle, tingle”); thus a sound-symbolic word. Morphologically possibly a back-formation.
guardian · tutelary (a person legally responsible for looking over a minor)
çekim: çoğul gyámok
köken: Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. Back-formation from gyámol (“pillar, support”), which is itself a backformation of gyámolít (“to buoy, support”), the origin of which is uncertain. It could be related to zsámoly (“footstool”).
köken: From Middle Irish brac, from Latin bracchium (“arm”), from Ancient Greek βραχῑ́ων (brakhī́ōn). Compare Welsh braich, a Brythonic borrowing of the same word.