interchange, hub, circus · knot (speed of one nautical mile per hour) · node
çekim: çoğul κόμβοι · tamlayan κόμβου
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek κόμβος (kómbos) with semantic loan from French nœud for 'hub' and 'node' and from English knot in the nautical sense. Doublet of κόμπος (kómpos).
knot (looping in a string, wire, thread or similar material, that ties or binds things together) · knot (difficulty, hardship; difficult situation) · node, nodule (a thickening of some tissue, usually round or oval; a place where many fibrous elements come together)
çekim: çoğul mezgli · tamlayan mezgla
köken: Perhaps originally an adjective (“knotty”) with an extra l (there are dialectal forms without l, like mezgs “knotty”, as well as older parallel forms with a, like its Lithuanian cognate), from an earlier Proto-Baltic verb *mezg-ti “to braid, to tie in a knot” (cf. its still extant iterative form mežģīt), from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, to tie, to bind”), from which perhaps also mest…
node of bamboo or sugarcanes · joint of bones, fingers
köken: From Proto-Polynesian *pona (compare with Māori pona, Rarotongan pona, Tahitian pona). Compare with Malay buku and Tagalog buko (themselves cognate of puʻu) for similar semantic developments within the same family.