köken: From вода́ (vodá) + -о- (-o-) + -ём (-jóm), combining form of имать (imatʹ, “to take, originally to have”) (compare 1sg. present е́млю (jémlju)).
a lady ((respectful way to refer to a) woman – similar tone to English in different contexts) · a woman (idiomatically, in some contexts, for example women's clothing and women's sports – often paired with herre as a respectful term for a man) · the ladies' room, the ladies' (short for damernas toalett)
a closed body of water, e.g. a lagoon · reservoir (natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply) · glacial basin (a broad and relatively shallow depression caused by glaciation)
çekim: çoğul altaat · tamlayan altaan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aldas (compare Karelian allaš (“trough”)), derived from a root borrowed from Proto-Germanic *aldǭ (“trough”) (whence e.g. Norwegian olda and separately also aalto). The ending has probably been modified to -as by analogy with other Germanic loans (such as valas).
köken: It is generally agreed to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-H- (“to burn bright, gleam; white, pale”), but there is disagreement whether the word is one of the earliest Romanian loans from Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp”), or whether it is a substrate word. Possibly borrowed from Albanian baltë (“mud”) or its immediate Proto-Albanian/Illyrian ancestor. Cognate with Aromanian baltã, Italian palta…