köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stъlbъ. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic стлъба (stlŭba, “summit”), Lithuanian stul̃bas, Latvian stulbs, Old Norse stolpi (“pillar”).
column · a vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom · a body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
çekim: çoğul sütunlar · tamlayan sütunun
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian سُتُون (sutūn).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *bakana (“pole, pillar, column”), or an early borrowing from a Mongolic source (compare Mongolian багана (bagana, “pole, column”)). Cognate to Bashkir бағана (bağana), etc.
köken: First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1511. as Middle Korean 기도ᇰ (kitwong), from older suffixless form 긷 (kit) (First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446.). Compare dialectal forms 기동 (gidong, Hamgyeong/Gangwon/Chungcheong/Jeolla), 지둥 (jidung, Chungnam), 지동 (jidong, Gyeongsang/Chungbuk/Jeju), 기듕 (gidyung, Hambuk), 지뒹 (jidwing, Hambuk), etc.
column (upright supporting structure) · column (monument in the shape of a pillar, with a statue on it) · column (body of troops or vehicles, usually strung out along a road)
çekim: çoğul kolumny · tamlayan kolumny
eş: filar, podpora, słup, słupek
köken: Etymology tree Latin columnalbor. Polish kolumna Learned borrowing from Latin columna.
column (vertical body of text) · column (unit of width, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text) · column (recurring feature in a periodical)
çekim: çoğul palstat · tamlayan palstan
köken: Uncertain. Possibly conflated from multiple different origins, such as Slavic (Russian полоса (polosa), Russian пласт (plast)) and Germanic (Swedish spalt); the most likely direct Slavic cognate is dialectal Russian полсть (polstʹ). Related to Ingrian palsta, Karelian palsta and Votic palstõ.
From Middle Dutch colomme, from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Doublet of column and colonne.