needle · needle (of a compass) · hand (of a watch)
çekim: çoğul aiguilles
eş: percuteur
köken: Inherited from Old French aguille, from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”). Perhaps influenced phonetically by aiguiser. Compare Occitan agulha.
needle (implement for sewing) · needle (thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph) · pine needle
çekim: çoğul agulhas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese agulla, from Late Latin acūcula, a diminutive of Latin acus (“needle, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
a leaf (including a conifer's needle) · a petal · a sheet or leaf of paper
çekim: çoğul folia · tamlayan foliī
köken: Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”), and thus an exact cognate of Ancient Greek φῠ́λλον (phŭ́llon). An alternative theory, favored by Driessen and De Vaan, derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *dʰolh₁yom, from *dʰelh₁- (“be green”), whence Middle Irish duille, Welsh dail, Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom”), Old Armenian…
From the development of the sense “splinter, pointed tip, awn” to “pine needles” (see Etymology 2 below) and then narrowed to the specific tree name. For the semantic development, compare Icelandic barr (“pine needles”) from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“(awn of) barley”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élsnos (“alder”) (compare Lithuanian al̃ksnis, Latin alnus), derivative of *h₂élis-…