köken: From Middle High German milwe, milewe, from Old High German miliwa. Cognate with archaic Dutch meluw (“woodlouse”), Middle Low German mēle (“mite”). Further related with German mahlen (“to grind”), Mehl (“flour”), English meal (“coarse flour”). Also compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉 (malō, “moth”) and Swedish mal (“moth”), which could be related.
a tick, a mite: any of various small parasitic arachnids of subclass Acari · a parasite, a layabout, a moocher: someone who lives off other people
köken: /tani/ → /dani/ From Old Japanese. Shift from earlier reading tani, which persists in some modern dialects. The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 壁蝨 /壁虱 (bìshī). The characters literally mean 壁 (“wall”) + 蝨 (“louse”), as an indication that ticks and mites may be found on walls.
aile: 真蜱: → tick, 毛蜱: → mite, 葉蜱: → a red mite, a spider mite, 羽壁蝨: → a red mite, 粉蜱: → a mold mite of family Acaridae, 葉壁蝨
köken: Cognate with Latvian ē̃rce, from Proto-Baltic [Term?], of unknown ultimate origin. Compare Proto-Slavic *ràkъ ~ *òrkъ (“crayfish”), in which case a doublet of rõkis; possibly from an extinct substrate language.
tick, mite (numerous species of tiny arachnids of subclass Acari that live as parasites on various plants and animals)
çekim: çoğul ērces · tamlayan ērces
köken: Cognate with Lithuanian érkė, from Proto-Baltic *erkyā- (with er̄ > ē:r), of disputed origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“to tear, to pierce”) (whence also ērkšķis (“thorn”), q.v.) with an extra -(e)k. The original meaning would then have been “one who pierces, tears.” Possible Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit ऋक्षरः (r̥kṣaraḥ, “sting, thorn, spike”), रक्षः (rákṣaḥ,…
kamēr zirgs dzēra, zemniek izrāva ērci, kas bija piezīdušies kaklam