a foresail · by comparison, of shape: · the head of a cogwheel
çekim: çoğul fokken
köken: From Middle Dutch focke, further origin unclear. Possibly from the verb vocken (“to blow”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Faroese fokka (“jib”), though this could have been a reverse borrowing. Both of these could be from Proto-Germanic *fuk(k)ōn- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug-néh₂-.
A jib (triangular sail attached to the forestay of a sailboat, the clew of which reaches back about to the level of the mast).
çekim: çoğul fokkur · tamlayan fokku
köken: From Proto-Germanic *fukkōną (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug-néh₂-. Probably related to Dutch fok (“foresail”), but it is unclear whether either language borrowed the term from the other.