köken: Derivation of Proto-Common Turkic *beŋ, possibly from Proto-Common Turkic. Cognate with Turkish ben, possibly cognate with Chuvash мин (min, “face colour, blush; rash”).
mole, a small mammal that lives underground · a Japanese mole (Mogera wogura), in particular
köken: First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean 두디〮쥐〮 (Yale: twùtí-cúy), from Middle Korean 두디— (twuti-, “to rummage, to dig”) + 쥐 (cwuy, “mouse, rat”).
köken: Etymology tree Mundabor. Sanskrit तिल (tila) Prakrit तिल (tila) Hindi तिल Inherited from Prakrit तिल (tila), from Sanskrit तिल (tila), borrowed from a Munda language.
köken: Attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, as a single word, חפרפרת, while the Masoretic Text (the basis for every subsequent Torah) renders it as two separate words, חְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת (literally “to dig fruit”). Jerome of Stridon reckoned the word must've originally referred to a burrowing animal, based on the identification of עֲטַלֵּף (ʿăṭallep̄) as “bat”. This theory gained currency among Christian and…
köken: From *gnaevus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁iwós (“native”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”). Probable doublet of Gnaeus.
aile: naevius, Naevius
Etimoloji
From Middle High German mūlwurf, mūlwerf, which is composed of mūl (“mouth”) (see Maul) and wurf (“throwing”) (see werfen). This is a folk etymological reinterpretation of the earlier term moltwerf, from late Old High German mul(t)wurf, which actually meant "earth(up)thrower," the first element from molta (“earth, dust”) (see Molte). Thus, the original word referred to the mole as a creature that…