ear (of corn) · head, ear (of a grass seed) · spike (of a flower)
çekim: çoğul Ähren · tamlayan Ähren
köken: From Middle High German eher, äher n, from Old High German ehir, ahir, ahar n, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz n. The form with Ä- is Upper German, where -h- led to an open vowel through secondary (rather than primary) umlaut. The feminine form, in turn, is a chiefly Central German backformation from plural use. Cognate with Dutch aar, West Frisian ier, English ear. Ultimately derived from…
aile: Ährenfeld, Ährenkranz, Ährenspindel, Scheinähre, Zahl oder Ähre
ear, spike, fruiting body of a grain plant · arrowhead
çekim: çoğul башаҡтар · tamlayan башаҡтың
köken: From *bašaq (“ear of a cereal plant”), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head”). Cognates Cognate with Kazakh масақ (masaq), Southern Altai мажак (mažak), Uzbek bоshоq, Turkish başak, Khakas пазах (pazax, “ear of a cereal plant”), etc.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese espiga, from Latin spīca (“spike”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp, sharp stick”). Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan espiga, Occitan espic, French épi, Italian spiga and Romanian spic.
ear (fruiting body of a grain plant) · spike (type of inflorescence)
çekim: çoğul tähkät · tamlayan tähkän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *tähkä, possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *teškä, in which case cognate with Erzya тикше (tikše, “grass”), Komi-Permyak тош (toš) and Udmurt туш (tuš).
köken: From Proto-Italic *speikā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”), with De Vaan proposing a particular extended pre-form of *speyg.