diminutive of hwrdd (“ram, male sheep”) · small man · mullet (Mugil and Mullus)
çekim: çoğul hyrddod
köken: hwrdd (“ram, male sheep”) + -yn
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Greek κέφαλος (kéfalos, “mullet; gray mullet”), from Ancient Greek κέφᾰλος (képhălos, “grey mullet”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰébʰōl (“head”). Cognates include Turkish kefal, Russian кефа́ль (kefálʹ), Albanian qefull and Romanian chefal.