aile: œillet barbu, œillet de Dieu, œillet de mer, œillet de Pâques, œillet de poète, œillet des champs, œillet des chartreux, œillet des fleuristes, œillet des jardins, œillet des prés
köken: Inherited from Latin caryophyllus, caryophyllum, caryophyllon, borrowed from Ancient Greek καρυόφυλλον (karuóphullon). Compare Sicilian garòfalu and Venetan garòfoło.
carnation, pink (any plant of the genus Dianthus) · carnation, pink (flower) · clove (very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree)
çekim: çoğul goździki · tamlayan goździka
köken: Etymology tree Polish góźdź Proto-Indo-European *-eykos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-eikas Proto-Slavic *-ikъ Old Polish -ik Polish -ik Polish goździk From góźdź + -ik.
köken: szeg (“nail [spike]”) + fű (“grass”), originally in the sense szegfűszeg (“clove”), then its meaning was gradually displaced by “carnation”, based on the similarity of the shape and scent of the spice and the flower. For a similar transfer of meaning from the nail to the spice, compare Latin clāvellus (a diminutive of clāvus) and German Nelke.
Borrowed from Middle Low German nēgelke(n) (“little spike, nail”), from Old Saxon nagal (“nail”). Doublet of Nägelchen and Nägelein (archaic). Low German-looking forms are already found in Middle High German negelkīn alongside negelīn; the contraction is first attested in Central German Nelekin. The feminine form in -e is a backformation from the plural. The name is due to the typical form of…