köken: Inherited from Middle French guy, from Old French guy, from Latin viscum, influenced by Frankish *wīhsila (in both cases cognate to French guigne (“heart cherry, wild cherry”))
köken: First attested in the Dong'ui bogam (東醫寶鑑 / 동의보감), 1613, as Early Modern Korean 겨으살이 (Yale: kyeu-sal-i). From 겨울 (gyeoul, “winter”) + 살- (sal-, “to live”) + -이 (-i).
köken: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱs-, possibly a European borrowing for a tree similar to the mistletoe. Compare also Ancient Greek ἰξός (ixós, “mistletoe, birdlime”), Proto-Slavic *višьňa, Proto-Germanic *wīhsilō, and probably Italian visciola (“sour cherry”), the last likely a Germanic borrowing. Traditionally associated with vīrus, although this is unlikely. Also compare Proto-Germanic…
mistletoe · heat lightning · alternative form of ãmaras (“aphid; the plant disease of being affected by aphids”)
çekim: çoğul amalai̇̃ · tamlayan ãmalo
köken: Cognate to Latvian amols, āmuļi, ãmulis, Old Prussian emelno (“mistletoe”), Proto-Slavic *emela (“mistletoe”). Plausibly a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language.
amalo šakelė
Etimoloji
From Middle Dutch mistel, from Old Dutch *mistil, from Proto-West Germanic *mistil, from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz.