köken: From Middle High German gift f (“gift, present”), Old High German gift f (“gift”), from Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz, which is a derivation of *gebaną (“to give”). Cognate with English gift. The word has been used as a euphemism for "poison" since Old High German, a semantic loan from Late Latin dosis (“dose”), from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “gift; dose of medicine”).…
aile: auf etwas Gift nehmen können, Bakteriengift, Bienengift, Blutgift, Fliegengift, Gegengift, Genussgift, Giftanschlag, giftarm, Giftattentat
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venom (poison) · venom, vitriol (feeling of malign or contempt)
çekim: çoğul venins
köken: Inherited from Middle French venin, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum.
aile: morte la bête, mort le venin, envenimer, vénéneux, venimeux
venom (animal toxin delivered by a bite or sting) · poison or toxin of any kind · venom; malice; malevolence; vitriol
çekim: çoğul peçonhas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese peçonna, poçonna, poçõya, from Vulgar Latin *potionea, from Latin pōtiō (“drink”). Cognate of Spanish ponzoña, Galician pezoña and French poison. Doublet of poção.
poison (substance harmful to a living organism) · venom (animal toxin intended for offensive use) · toxin (a poison produced by the biological processes of organisms)
çekim: çoğul myrkyt · tamlayan myrkyn
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mürkkü, of unclear further origin. Cognate with Estonian mürk.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech jěd, from Proto-Slavic *ědъ; either from *ěsti (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *ēd-, or related to Old High German eitar (“pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *oid-.
köken: Of debated origin. Either: # Borrowed from Alanic. Compare Ossetian марг (marg, “poison”). Further akin to Persian مرگ (marg, “death”). # From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mirkkɜ (“poison”). Compare Finnish myrkky (“poison”), but this is problematic.