köken: Per ESTJa, from ерту (ertu, “to lead”) + -ек (-ek). However, in Turkic languages, the opening formula of fairy tales often includes "erte-ertede" ("once upon a time", lit. early-early), thus a derivation from ерте (erte, “early”) is also possible. Cognate with Uzbek ertak, Turkmen erteki
fairy tale · story presented as true that is not believable · dream come true (very desirable life)
çekim: çoğul sprookjes
köken: Can be regarded as the diminutive of sproke, a learned borrowing from the Middle Dutch word that also yielded the inherited form spreuk. This diminutive has, however, taken on a life of its own with the current meaning of "fairy tale". Sprookje is attested since the seventeenth century, however, whereas sproke as a learned borrowing likely postdates that, so the exact chronology is muddled.…
köken: From 御(お) (o-, honorific prefix) + 伽(とぎ) (togi, “relieving one of boredom with a story; taking care of one”) + 話(はなし) (hanashi, “story, tale”). The hanashi changes to banashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
a fairy tale · a story, a tale (more generally) · a saga
çekim: çoğul sagor · tamlayan sagas
köken: From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. First attested in the mid-14th century Cognate with Danish saghæ, Jutish save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Faroese søga, Icelandic saga, German Sage, English saw. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.