köken: From Franco-Provençal (Dauphinois) melèzo (“larch tree”), from Vulgar Latin *melice, formed from a cross between Gaulish *mel- (“larch”) and Latin larix (“larch”). The Gaulish word is from Proto-Celtic *meli.
aile: mélèze commun, mélèze d'Europe
Le mélèze est un conifère des montagnes qui perd ses aiguilles en hiver.
köken: Probably from qara-yïgač (“black tree”) (see Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”) and *ïgač (“tree”)). However, Rahmatullayev suggests for the Uzbek term a derivation from *qayïr (“"tree bark"; purportedly "hard, firm, solid"”) and *ïğač (“tree”)). Cognate with Kazakh қарағаш (qarağaş, “Ulmus carpinifolia”), Southern Altai кара-агаш (kara-agaš, “elm”), Uzbek qayragʻoch (“Ulmus carpinifolia”), Uyghur…
köken: thông (pine) + rụng (drop) + (lá) (leaf), so named for the fact that, despite the fact that the larch is a conifer, it is deciduous, shedding its leaves each year