köken: From Middle High German hahsen pl (“poplits”) < Old High German hāhsina (“Achilles tendon”) < Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu. Compare obsolete dialectal English huxen.
köken: Inherited from Old French jambe, from Late Latin gamba.
aile: à toutes jambes, avoir des fourmis dans les jambes, avoir les jambes en coton, avoir une tête et des jambes, enjamber, faire des ronds de jambe, faire une belle jambe, jambage, jambe de bois, jambière
cinnamon (spice from the cinnamon tree) · shin (front part of the leg below the knee) · any tree in the genus Ocotea
çekim: çoğul canelas
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese canela, from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).
shank (the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle) · tarsus (of animals) · claw, talon
çekim: çoğul garres
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *garra (compare Occitan garra, Spanish garra), borrowed from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”). Compare Breton gar, Old Irish gairri (“calves”).
crossbow · hock (the tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)
çekim: çoğul béstas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese baesta (“crossbow”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra). Cognate with Portuguese besta and Spanish ballesta.
shin (front part of the leg below the knee), shinbone, shank (lower part of the leg) · drumstick (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl) · cannon bone (metatarsal or metacarpal of a horse)
çekim: çoğul lorgaí · tamlayan lorgaí
köken: From Middle Irish lurga. Cognate with Manx lurgey.
* (Capelle aan den IJssel) Attested as Schinkel in 1611. Derived from schinkel (“levee connecting two separate levees”). * (Nissewaard) Derived from schinkel (“levee connecting two separate levees”).