köken: From Middle Dutch juweel, jouweel, from Anglo-Norman juel, from Old French jouel, joel, joiel, of uncertain ultimate origin. Perhaps based ultimately on Latin gaudium (“joy”), or on Latin iocus (“joke; jest”). Compare Medieval Latin jocale and English jewel.
köken: jalo (“noble”) + kivi (“stone”). Coined by Finnish priest Anders Gabriel Wikman in 1829. Probably a calque of Swedish ädelsten (compare also German Edelstein).
A bud or eye of a plant. · A gem, gemstone, jewel, precious stone. · A thing made of precious stones.
çekim: çoğul gemmae · tamlayan gemmae
köken: Unknown. Possibilities include: * Cognate with Proto-Slavic *zębnǫti and Lithuanian žémbėti, both meaning “to germinate, sprout”, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵemb- or *ǵeb- (“to bud, sprout”), though such a root would be irregular for PIE; * From Proto-Indo-European *ǵembʰ- (“nail, tooth”), despite the semantic gap. Compare, however, Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw, nail, hoof, talon, but…