to launch · to throw, shoot (with force) · to release, publish (make available to the public)
çekim: geçmiş lancei · ortaç lançado · şimdiki lança
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lançar, from Late Latin lanceāre (“to throw a spear”), derived from Latin lancea (“spear”), from Celtiberian. Doublet of lancear and lança.
a log: unsawn lumber (UK) or timber (US), a section of a tree cut to a length and with the bark removed, but otherwise round and unfinished · synonym of 似鯉 (nigoi, “Hemibarbus barbus”) · the Pacific redfin, Pseudaspius brandtii
köken: Compound of 丸 (maru, “circle; round”) + 太 (ta, “fat”, here possibly emphasizing the roundness). First cited to a text from 1633.
aile: 丸太小屋, 丸太ん棒: a log, 丸太魚: a maruta fish: a ニゴイ, 丸太式舞台: a log-style stage, made of hewn logs, 丸太舟, 丸太洗い
stump (of a tree); stub, stubble · stock (of a plant)
köken: First attested as Middle Korean 그릏 (kùlùh) in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1:45a, 1459. Beyond Middle Korean, speculatively connected to Goguryeo 斤乙 (*kur) from the place name gloss of 沙非斤乙 to 赤木縣 (“red tree district”) found in the Samguk sagi.
log (trunk of a tree cleared of branches) · stock (tree) · stump
çekim: çoğul bușteni · tamlayan bușteanului
köken: Unknown. One theory links it to Transylvanian Saxon Bumstam, equivalent to German Baumstamm. However, while this makes sense for the most common meaning, it doesn't account for the older and rarer meanings or for the Aromanian cognate bushtinã (“soot”), and also the related or derived terms in Romanian, buștenit (“blackened”), buștină (“fog, darkness”), and the regional buștușag (“fire,…
post, tree trunk · stake · blockhead, lunkhead, idiot, fool
çekim: çoğul stīpitēs · tamlayan stīpitis
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *steypos. Cognates include Lithuanian sti̇̀pti (“to stiffen, grow rigid”), Latvian stiept (“to stretch”), English stiff, Icelandic stífla (“to dam”). Synchronically analyzable as a nominal derivative of stīpō (“to compress, surround”).
tree trunk · a cake consisting of different cakes mixed with e.g. rum, marmalade, marzipan, chocolate, covered in marzipan and dipped by the ends in chocolate