köken: From Middle High German doch, from Old High German doh, from Proto-West Germanic *þauh, from Proto-Germanic *þauh. Cognate to Old English þēah (English though).
köken: From Middle Persian ME lʾd (čim rāy, “why”), from Proto-Iranian *čim (“what”) + *rādi- (“reason, thing”), literally, “what reason”. The former is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kím ~ čím, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷím (“what”), while the latter is a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange,…
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀫𑀁 (āmaṃ), from Sanskrit आम् (ām), probably a variant of the sacred syllable ॐ (oṃ). The initial h- is emphatic, from Sanskrit हि (hi), ह (ha), or related to होना (honā). Doublet of ॐ (om).
köken: Clipping of כן. The spelling with ע (“'áyin”) is either influenced by its pronunciation in Yiddish or used to represent a glottal stop that substitutes original ן (“nún”).