köken: From Middle High German schame, from Old High German scama, from Proto-West Germanic *skamu, from Proto-Germanic *skamō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Compare Dutch schaamte, English shame, Danish skam.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Oghuz اَمْ (am), from Proto-Turkic *am. Cognate with Turkish and Turkmen am. Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.
köken: From reconstructed Middle Korean *볻 (*pwot), with suffix -이 (-i, noun suffix). See Yukjin dialect 보대 (bodae, “vulva”), which was a dialect that did not undergo palatalization of /t/. Cognate with Jeju 보뎅이 (bodeng'i, “vulva”) and probably also Japanese 陰 (hoto, “id.”), historically from Old Japanese *potə. Compare also 불 (bul, “genitalia”), surviving in fossilized form in words such as 불알 (bural,…
vulva, pudenda (external female sex organs) · shame
çekim: çoğul sromy · tamlayan sromu
eş: kiep, sromota
köken: Inherited from Old Polish srom, from Proto-Slavic *sȏrmъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śarmas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱórmos (“shame, grief, torment, pain”), from *ḱer-. Cognate with English harm and Persian شرم (“shame”).
köken: In Biblical Hebrew attested twice ambiguously: In the First Book of Kings 7:50 either “front side” or “socket of the door pin” of a door; in the Book of Isaiah 3:17 skulls of women are made scabby and their פֹּת (pōṯ) bared, where it is natural to assume it to mean “foreheads” rather than “pudenda”; due to the scarcity of genital vocabulary from biblical sources one was enticed to instead find it…
vulva; vagina (the female genitalia including their external as well as internal parts) · a woman seen as merely providing access to sex (also used of homosexual men)
çekim: çoğul cunnī · tamlayan cunnī
köken: Uncertain. Various theories include: * Proto-Indo-European *kutnos (“cover”), cognate with cutis (“skin”). The metaphor is identical to the one connecting Latin vulva and English hull, albeit from a different Indo-European root. * A relationship to Latin cuneus (“wedge”). * From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), evolved from an original sense of “gash”, “slit”.