sour cherry (fruit of Prunus cerasus) · a quick escape by running
çekim: çoğul guindas
eş: azul, botón, cana, madero, naca, rati
köken: Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīhsilō (“type of cherry”), from *wīhs- (“mistletoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wīsos, *wiHsos. Compare French guigne, Italian visciola, Old Occitan guindola.
köken: From Middle Dutch crieke f, from Old Dutch *krieka, unexplained; perhaps from Late Latin prunum graecum (“Greek plum”), though this isn't attested until 1517 in a Latin-German dictionary. Latin gr was often derived as kr in older Germanic borrowings (see Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō (“Greek”)). See German Krieche for more cognates.
köken: In the form Visula and Visla at least sometimes directly acquired from Proto-Slavic *Visъla. The form Viscla resolves the /sl/ cluster like in Sclavus, uncommon in Latin, and in Germanic, via which it has sometimes been acquired. Often explained as from the Proto-Indo-European root *weys- (“to flow”) as in Proto-Germanic *waisǭ (“mire”), although if of Slavic origin then *visěti (“to hang”) would…
cherry · sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) · calabur tree
köken: From Dutch kersen, plural form of kers (“cherry”), from Middle Dutch kerse, ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin. Currently largely superseded by ceri.
16th century, from Middle Low German Wissel, from Proto-Slavic *Visъla. The form is probably due to analogy: as wissel(-bēre) is also the Low German form of the fruit in etymology 2 below, the river name was adapted to High German accordingly.