köken: Inherited from Old Spanish sangusuela (c. 1250, in Libro de los animales que caçan), from Latin sanguisūga (“leech”) + -uela (“diminutive suffix”). Less likely, from earlier sanguja (“leech”) + -uela. Note that sangusuela is attested earlier than sanguja (1494, in Vicente de Burgos).
köken: From earlier form زلو (zalū) from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (złwk' /zalūg/) from Proto-Iranian *jaluš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́aluš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelu-. Akin to Old Armenian տզրուկ (tzruk); an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Several possibilities: * from Persian زالو, or influenced by it. * a derivation of Proto-Turkic *sül/*sil (“slime”). For other cases of voicing of initial /s/, compare zəngin, zindan, zopa and ziyil. * from *sülük <- *süllük <- *sümlük <- Proto-Turkic *sim-/*süm- (“to suck”).
leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)
çekim: çoğul sanguessugas
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally.
leech (an aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)
çekim: çoğul piócák
köken: From a Slavic language, compare pijavica.
Etimoloji
From Middle Dutch lake, from Old Dutch *laca, from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“drain, ditch, stream, pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak, drain”).