kernel; single grain · cereal; corn; grain (type of plant and its fruit) · rye (as the most common kind of grain in German-speaking Europe)
çekim: çoğul Körner · tamlayan Kornes
eş: Feingewicht, Nettogewicht
köken: From Middle High German korn, from Old High German korn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.
In Wenningstedt bei Karten und Korn / Erschlug einst ein Bauer in jähem Zorn / Seinen Gast.
köken: Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French bille (“small ball”), from Medieval Latin billia, from Frankish *bikkil (“ossicle, a die, talus”). Cognate with Dutch bikkel (“dibs, die”), West Frisian bikkel (“die”), German Bickel (“marble”).
aile: bille en tête, roulement à billes, stylo à bille, toucher sa bille
köken: Of Iranic origin; perhaps entered standard Persian as a dialectal form or from another Iranian language. Compare Classical Persian دیده (dīda, “iris, eye”), Middle Persian tytk' (*tīdag, “pupil”), and Baluchi تیلگ (tilag, “eye”).
marble (small ball used in games) · glass bead, pearl, precious gem
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 區戌 (Yale: *kwùsúl). In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 구슬〮 (Yale: kwùsúl). Related to, and possibly a suffixed form of, an element found in two ancient place name glosses from the Samguk Sagi: pseudo-Goguryeo 古斯 (*kwos(V)), apparently meaning “jade; precious…
a small ball made of earthenware, glass (marble) or a similar hard material; of steel in a ball bearing; sphere · a testicle · a bullet
çekim: çoğul kulor · tamlayan kulas
köken: From Old Norse kúla (“lump, swelling”), with the meaning of "sphere" influenced by Middle Low German kule (“depression, bulge”) and German Kugel (“ball, sphere, bullet”).
pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks) · bead (small, round object, such as those attached with a thread or string to form a chain) · pearl (font size)
çekim: çoğul helmet · tamlayan helmen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *helmi, which may be a substrate word.