köken: Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (lắtăx, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *latis (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō-…
sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition · latex: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber · fluid, juice: a clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
çekim: çoğul getah-getah
köken: From Malay getah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice.
latex, gum: the milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air. · sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. · rubber:
çekim: çoğul getah-getah
köken: From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gətəq (“sap, gummy secretion”), *-təq (“sap, gummy secretion”). Semantic loan from Dutch sap for the sense of biological fluid, biological juice.
köken: Compare with Māori tawau and Tahitian tāpau. Sense of stain likely evolved from "sap" > "remnant" > "stain", compare with semantic overlap in Māori tae and Malay tahi.