tarsus (of an animal; the part of the foot between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus) · foot, leg
çekim: çoğul kintut · tamlayan kintun
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kinttu, from the same root as *kinder (whence kinner). Cognate with Ingrian kinttu (“thigh”), Karelian kinttu (“foot, calf, thigh, ham”), Estonian kint.
The flat part of the foot. · The edge of the eyelid.
çekim: çoğul tarsī · tamlayan tarsī
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τᾰρσός (tărsós, “the flat of the foot; the edge of the eyelid and its lashes”). Has been compared with Armenian թառ (tʻaṙ, “bar for drying grapes”), Old High German darra (“apparatus for drying fruits”), Swedish tarre (“frame for drying malts”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“to dry”). However, for phonetic reasons this is uncertain.