thigh · thighbone · the loins; capacity to produce children
çekim: çoğul femina · tamlayan feminis
köken: Uncertain. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found. De Vaan and Lubotsky tentatively support Steinbauer's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“arc, bow”); this is semantically attractive, but the hypothetical change from *-nw- to…
haunch, loin (transitional body part that connects the legs to the torso) · waist
çekim: çoğul ха́ншове
köken: Borrowed from French hanche (whence also English haunch). Superseded native лѧдвьѥ (lędvĭje), preserved as obsolescent ле́джа (lédža, “lineage, descent”) (in figurative sense).