köken: From Middle Korean 모밇 (Yale: mwomilh), probably 뫃 (Yale: mwoh, “edge, spike”) + 밇 (Yale: milh, “wheat”), in reference to the shape of the seeds; compare English buckwheat. First attested in Sinicized form in the 1260s as 木麥 /木麦, where 木 appears to be an ateji. First attested in Hangul form in 1518. Reanalyzed in the nineteenth or early twentieth century as being equivalent to 메 (me, “wild;…
köken: Derived from Middle Low German bokwete, equivalent to bok (“beech”) + vete (“wheat”). Related to Danish boghvede and possibly borrowed or calqued from it.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *bъlvanъ Old Polish bałwan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-iškas Proto-Slavic *-ьskъ Old Polish -ski Old Polish bałwański Polish bałwański Inherited from Old Polish bałwański. By surface analysis, bałwan + -ski.