point, tip, cusp, prong, tine (sharp point or pointed end) · lead (the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game) · spearhead (leading military unit in an attack)
çekim: çoğul kärjet · tamlayan kärjen
köken: Probably a shift from kärki (etymology 2). Alternatively, and less likely, related to Livonian kerk (“toe or heel of the bit on an axe”) and Võro kärk (“toe or heel of the bit on an axe”) (Mulgi) (for which one may reconstruct Proto-Finnic *kärkkä).