köken: Borrowed from Russian меду́за (medúza), from Latin Medūsa, from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), with the meaning transferred from the gorgon Medusa.
jellyfish · an annoying, figuratively slimy person
çekim: çoğul kwallen
köken: From earlier qualle; likely an ablaut variant from the same root as kwellen (“to well up, swell up”), whence also kwelder. Cognate with German Qualle.
16th century, from Middle Low German *qualle. Compare modern Low German Quall, Dutch kwal (17th c.). In spite of the earlier High German attestation, the Low German origin is agreed upon for both natural and dialectological reasons. Probably from quellen (like etymology 2 below). However, an alternative theory derives it from a word for “curdled, coagulated”, from Middle Low German quagel…