köken: Inherited from Middle French criquet, from Old French criket, from Old French criquer (“to crack, creak”), of Germanic origin. Compare Dutch kriek, krekel (“cricket”), English creak.
grasshopper, locust, especially when toasted as food · small child, tot · a person who flirts with or comes on to their friends' partners or romantic interests.
çekim: çoğul chapulines
eş: saltamontes, langosta
köken: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chapolin (“grasshopper”).
grasshopper, locust (insect of the suborder Caelifera or infraorder Acrididea)
çekim: çoğul sprinkhanen
köken: From Middle Dutch sprinchane, from Old Dutch sprinco (“grasshopper”) + hano (“cock, rooster”). The extension is believed to be due to association with the rooster’s twitching movements. Old Dutch sprinco continues Proto-West Germanic *sprinkō (cognate with Middle High German höusprinke), derived from *springan (“to jump”).
a grasshopper or locust · a crustacean, (prob) a kind of lobster
çekim: çoğul lō̆custae · tamlayan lō̆custae
köken: The origin is uncertain, length of the first vowel varies. According to De Vaan, the only word similar in form and meaning is lacerta (“lizard; mackerel”) and “they could be cognate words in the language from which Latin borrowed these forms”. Pokorny connects lō̆custa and lacerta with Ancient Greek λάξ (láx) λάγδην (lágdēn, “with the foot”, adverb), λάκτις (láktis, “pestle”), λικερτίζειν…
aile: prius pariet lō̆custa Lūcam bovem, Lō̆custa, Lū̆custa
2015, Tuomo Pekkanen, Ingentes greges locustarum in Russia meridionali. https://areena.yle.fi/1-2864830, Nuntii Latini 7.8.2015