köken: From cuchar, from Latin cochleāre (with an unusual development of /-kl-/, likely due to the early palatalization of /lj/>/ʒ/), from cochlea. Compare Portuguese colher, Catalan cullera, French cuillère, cuiller, Italian cucchiaio, Sicilian cucchiara.
aile: comerás con la cuchara que escojas, cuchara común, cuchara de albañil, cuchara de pastor, cuchara de postre, cuchara de sopa, cucharita, meter la cuchara, meter cuchara, teoría de las cucharas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochleārem (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Compare with caracol (“snail”).
aile: colher de café, colher de chá, colher de sobremesa, colher de sopa, colherinha, colherita, colherzinha, colherzita