basin, wide bowl · a swimming pool or other artificial pool · a basin, large hollow, enclosed valley
çekim: tamlayan Beckens
eş: Pelvis
köken: From Middle High German becken, from Old High German becki, beckin, from Vulgar Latin *baccīnum (possibly attested as bacchinon, 6th century), probably from Gaulish. Compare Dutch bekken and further French bassin, English basin.
pond (small lake, often shallow) · lagoon (especially on the Mediterranean coast)
çekim: çoğul étangs
eş: lac
köken: Derived from the Old French verb estanchier, through an earlier form estanc. Unrelated to Latin stāgnum (“pond”), which influenced the change in spelling from ⟨c⟩ to ⟨g⟩.
Étang de Thau
Voyez, près des étangs, / ces grands roseaux mouillés / Voyez, ces oiseaux blancs / et ces maisons rouillées
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic прудъ (prudŭ, “stream, pressure, dam”), from Proto-Slavic *prǫdъ. Cognate with Polish prąd (“flow, current”), Slovak prúd (“flow, current”) and Slovene prod (“gravel”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Italic *piskis Latin piscis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusnom. Latin -īna Latin piscīnalbor. Portuguese piscina Learned borrowing from Latin piscīna.
aile: fazer piscinas, piscina curta, piscina de saltos, piscina olímpica, piscina probática, piscina semiolímpica, piscinal, piscinão, piscineiro
a closed body of water, e.g. a lagoon · reservoir (natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply) · glacial basin (a broad and relatively shallow depression caused by glaciation)
çekim: çoğul altaat · tamlayan altaan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aldas (compare Karelian allaš (“trough”)), derived from a root borrowed from Proto-Germanic *aldǭ (“trough”) (whence e.g. Norwegian olda and separately also aalto). The ending has probably been modified to -as by analogy with other Germanic loans (such as valas).