köken: Inherited from Old French prime vere (“spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”). So-named because the flower blooms early in spring.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”) (from whence English vernal). Compare Italian primavera and Romanian primăvară.
köken: From esi- (“pre-”) + -kko, possibly thus called because some primroses are among the early bloomers in the spring (probably via a reference to the taxonomic name Primula, from primus (“first”)). Equivalent to Estonian esik- (“first”). Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1860 (originally as esikkö, later form esikko due to A. J. Mela in the 1880s); in dialects, meant e.g.…
köken: Origin disputed; possibly via игла́ (iglá, “needle”), although spurious, due to theorized inheritance from Proto-Slavic *jagla (“grain”) in ягли́ка and subsequent reduction to егли́ка and ultimately игли́ка; cognates of ягли́ка include Serbo-Croatian јаглика, whereas parallels of агли́ка are drawn in Romanian aglică and Albanian aguliçe. Another reckoning postulates Greek άγλυκος (áglykos,…