köken: Inherited from Middle High German grenize, borrowed from Old Polish granica, from Proto-Slavic *granica, from *granь /*grana (“branch; border”) + *-ica. The word spread westward in the 15th century and was reinforced by Luther’s Bible. Doublet of Granne.
köken: Borrowed in the 16th century from Middle Low German grense, grenitse and/or German Grenze, both ultimately from Old Polish granica, from Proto-Slavic *granica.
border (a line or frontier area separating regions) · the region near a border · separation
çekim: çoğul fronteiras
eş: limite
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese fronteira. By surface analysis, fronte + -eira. Compare Galician fronteira, Mirandese frunteira, Spanish and Catalan frontera, French frontière, Italian frontiera. Piecewise doublet of frontaria.
aile: fronteira agrícola, fronteira artificial, fronteira linguística, fronteira termodinâmica, fronteira viva
bound, boundary; the border of a territory · bound; a value which is larger (or smaller) than every element in a given set · border; where one country or other area ends and the next begins
çekim: çoğul gränser · tamlayan gränsens
köken: From Late Old Swedish grens, from German Grenze, from Proto-Slavic *granica (“boundary, border”).
aile: gränsbevakning, gränspostering, gränsstation, gränstrakt, gränsvärde, gränsövergång, gå över gränsen, minsta övre gräns, största undre gräns
border (line separating two regions) · region (area between borders) · edge, limit (bound beyond which one may not go)
çekim: çoğul granice · tamlayan granicy
eş: miedza, limes
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *granь /*grana Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kas Proto-Slavic *-ica Proto-Slavic *granica Old Polish granica Polish granica Inherited from Old Polish granica. By surface analysis, grań + -ica.
aile: na granicy prawa, za granicą, dolna granica, górna granica, granica wieku, granice wzrostu, zielona granica, na granicy, w granicach, graniczyć
border, boundary, limit, line (line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions) · limit, bound, confine (any other kind of restriction when likened to those bounding a geographical region, e.g. when a value must stay within a range) · line (exterior limit of a figure)
çekim: çoğul rajat · tamlayan rajan
köken: Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь. The same word was also borrowed into other Finnic languages, such as Estonian raja, Ingrian raja, Karelian raja, Ludian raja, Votic raja.
köken: Probably from the verb hat + -ár where the base word means “to go forward, to pierce further into” (the term currently used for this sense is hatol).
limit, border, bound boundary, frontier · boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, lands · limit in duration, term (duration of a set length)
köken: Disputed. Perhaps for Latin *fignis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”), whence fīgō, or for Latin *fidnis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), whence findō. Other hypotheses include: * From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike”); compare perfinēs (“(you would) break, shatter”). * From the same source as Proto-Germanic *bainaz (“straight; ready”) and *bainą…