to nail, to nail down (employ a nail as a fastener) · to pin down (to corner someone in order to get a firm answer) · to pigeonhole (to categorize something in a specific way, or associate it with a specific topic, to the exclusion of everything else)
çekim: geçmiş nagelte fest · ortaç festgenagelt · şimdiki nagelt fest · ulaç festnagelnd
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der. Proto-Italic *akus Latin acus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -cula Late Latin acūcula Old Spanish aguja Spanish aguja Inherited from Old Spanish aguja, from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”). Compare Sicilian agugghia.
aile: aguja colipinta, aguja de arria, aguja de bitácora, aguja de enjalmar, aguja de ensalmar, aguja de fogón, aguja de gancho, aguja de marcar, aguja de marear, aguja de mechar
lead, pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)
çekim: çoğul piny · tamlayan pinu
köken: Borrowed from English pin, from Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn, from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint-, from Proto-Indo-European *bend-.
köken: For the plum, from German Spendling, a form widespread in Early New High German for now Spilling; for the pin, from Middle High German spëndelinc, spëndel, spënel, both ultimately from Latin spīnula (“little thorn, needle”).
a needle, a pin · bodkin · alternative form of acus (“bran”)
çekim: çoğul acūs · tamlayan acūs
köken: The NIL suggests that the term was directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱus (“pointed”), from the root *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). However, De Vaan argues that the noun acus was a later formation from the same root. Though, De Vaan does suggest that this same Proto-Indo-European u-stem is the source of acūpedius and acuō (“sharpen, whet”).