large haystack kept in storage, often with a pole through its centre
çekim: çoğul almiares
eş: niara, parva
köken: Coromines and Pascual consider it to reflect the ellipsis of an unattested Late Latin (pertica) mediālis (“pole that goes in the middle of a haystack to hold it together”), with the meaning subsequently transferred to the haystack itself. Compare Portuguese almeara, almeada, and almiare (“outdoor hay-shed”), found in Castilian-influenced dialects. They take the Spanish variant ameal, found in…
heap, pile, mass · people, folk, masses, nation, tribe, population · provision, accumulation, supply
çekim: çoğul تودهها
köken: From Proto-Iranian *taw(H)táH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *taw(H)táH (“people, folk, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *tew(H)téh₂ (“people, tribe, men-at-arms”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish tûde, Sogdian 𐫤𐫇𐫔𐫏𐫍 (twδyh /tūδē/). More distantly related to Latin tōtus, Latvian tàuta, Lithuanian tautà, Irish tuath, Welsh tud, Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰 (þiuda), Middle English thede and Teuton.
köken: From an unattested *keben "haystack", which could be an affixed noun form derived from a verb attested in the Sakha collocation отто кэбис (otto kebis, “to stack hay”). Cognate with Tatar кибән (kibän, “haystack”), Kazakh кебен (keben, “haystack”), Karachay-Balkar гебен (geben, “haystack”).
köken: Possibly formed as a diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-mós (“heap”), from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”) + *-mós. Cognates from this root include Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă, “swell, wave”), Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), and Sanskrit श्वयति (śvayati, “swell”). However, Schrijver thinks the evidence for deriving cumulus from *ḱewh₁- is weak. Proto-Indo-European *-uH- usually became…