fence (thin barrier that separates two pieces of land) · wall (structure built for defense surrounding a city)
çekim: çoğul cercas
köken: Deverbal from cercar (“surround”), or from Old Galician-Portuguese cerca (“surround”), from a Vulgar Latin *circa (compare Spanish cerca, northern Italian cerca, French cerce), from the feminine of Latin circus.
aile: cerquilha
Algũs poꝛtugueſes q̃ ha viram quiſerã dizer ſer tamanha eſta cerca como ha ḋ Lixboa […]
the symbols #, ＃, or ♯ · a pattern similar to the symbol #, such as the shape of the crossed beams on a beam or coffered ceiling · a kind of 家紋 (kamon, “family seal”) featuring such a symbol
köken: Compound of 井(い) (i, “well, as in a water source”) + 桁(けた) (keta, “beam, girder”), from the way that four stout wooden beams would be crossed to form the top of a wellhead, similar in shape to a tic-tac-toe board. The keta changes to geta as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Possibly from the way that the character 井 has four strokes, and the way that 桁 (keta) also means digit.
köken: Compound of bräda (“board”) + gård (“yard”). First attested in 1780. In hash sense; from its similarities to the symbol that depict a lumberyard on maps.
enclosure, fencing, fence, stockade (structure that surrounds an area, such as a fence, mesh, or wall, making it difficult to enter or exit) · enclosure (fenced space)
çekim: çoğul ogrodzenia · tamlayan ogrodzenia
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *ogorďenьje Polish ogrodzenie Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ogorďenьje. By surface analysis, ogrodzić + -enie.
number sign (the character # used to represent the word number)
köken: From סולם (sulam, “ladder”) + ־ית (-it, diminutive suffix).
Etimoloji
Inherited from Malay pagar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pager (“enclosure; palisade around a village; fence around a planted tree or cultivated field”).