large haystack kept in storage, often with a pole through its centre
çekim: çoğul almiares
eş: niara, parva
köken: Coromines and Pascual consider it to reflect the ellipsis of an unattested Late Latin (pertica) mediālis (“pole that goes in the middle of a haystack to hold it together”), with the meaning subsequently transferred to the haystack itself. Compare Portuguese almeara, almeada, and almiare (“outdoor hay-shed”), found in Castilian-influenced dialects. They take the Spanish variant ameal, found in…
köken: From an unattested *keben "haystack", which could be an affixed noun form derived from a verb attested in the Sakha collocation отто кэбис (otto kebis, “to stack hay”). Cognate with Tatar кибән (kibän, “haystack”), Kazakh кебен (keben, “haystack”), Karachay-Balkar гебен (geben, “haystack”).
köken: From Proto-Vietic *p-ʄoːŋ ~ *ɟoːŋ. Cognate with Mlabri ɟioŋ ("father"), Khmu joŋ ("man"). This word originally just meant "man, male", as with North Central gấy/cấy (“wife”), originally just meant "woman, female". Attested in Annan Jishi (安南即事, 13th century) as 重 (MC drjowng) (modern SV: trùng). Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese chào᷃ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum…
stake (pointed long and slender piece of wood) · stack (pile of identical objects)
çekim: çoğul stácaí · tamlayan stácaí
köken: From a conflation of Middle English stake (“stake, fencepost”) (from Old English staca, from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô) and stak (“stack”) (from Old Norse stakkr, from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz). Doublet of staca (from stak) and staic (from a variant form of stake).