köken: Borrowed from Italian caviglia or Old Occitan cavilla, from Vulgar Latin *cāvicla, from syncopation of *cāvicula, from Classical Latin clāvicula, diminutive of clāvis (“key”). Doublet of chavelha, cravelha, and clavícula.
wedge (simple machine) · wedge (five-sided polyhedron) · wedge (something that creates a division)
çekim: çoğul kiilat · tamlayan kiilan
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German kīl (“wedge”), possibly but not necessarily through Swedish kil (“wedge”). Even an older Proto-Germanic borrowing has been suggested, but this runs into phonetic difficulties (the Low German word derives from earlier *kīþla-).
wedge · troops arrayed in a wedge formation · a phalanx (formation)
çekim: çoğul cuneī · tamlayan cuneī
köken: Uncertain root, apparently with the suffix -eus. Various problematic comparisons to either Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) or *ḱúH- (“spike; sting”) (compare Latin culex (“mosquito”), Avestan 𐬯𐬏𐬐𐬁 (sūkā, “needle”), Sanskrit शूक (śūka, “spike; bristle; insect sting”), शूल॑ (śū́la, “spear; stake”) etc.) have been unfruitful; a long vowel (*cūneus) would be expected in the latter case, and the…