köken: From Vulgar Latin *nuceola, from nuceus (“of nuts”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Ligurian nisêua, Sicilian nuzzola, Venetan noxeła, Romansh nitschola, and also French noisette.
hazel tree · Corylus heterophylla, the Asian hazelnut, in particular
köken: First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), c. 1460, as Middle Korean 개욤나모 (Yale: kayyom-namwo). By surface analysis, 개암 (gaeam, “hazelnut”) + 나무 (namu, “tree”).
köken: Together with Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”) from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos if not a Proto-Italic borrowing from Celtic or Germanic before the First Germanic Sound Shift or a substrate. The presence of the “y” letter may be a reworking of the original corulus variant through a phenomenon in which the Romans had the tendency to Grecize words for poetic reasons.…
aile: colurnus, corylētum
Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos / spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.