köken: From María + -ica, María being a common feminine given name. Unrelated to the similar Ancient Greek μαρικᾶς (marikâs, “passive male sexual partner, debauchee”).
köken: Probably from Old High German agaza (“magpie”), from Proto-Germanic *agatjō (“magpie”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare Occitan agaça/gacha, French agace, and possibly Catalan garsa.
chough (bird of the subfamily Pyrrhocoracinae) · Any of a number of more distantly related but superficially similar corvids, such as crows, rooks, jackdaws and certain species of jays. · chatterbox
çekim: çoğul gralhas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese gralla, from a Vulgar Latin root *gracla, syncopated form of Late Latin grācula, from Latin grāculus, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-k- (“croak”). Compare Spanish grajo, graja, Catalan gralla, Italian gracchia.
magpie · In particular, the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) or the Oriental magpie (Pica serica).
eş: 유라시아까치, 한국까치
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 渴則寄 (Yale: *kacoki). Also attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 가〯치〮 (Yale: kǎchí). The spontaneous tensing of the initial consonant occurred in the late nineteenth century. Spontaneous tensing is a recurrent phenomenon in Modern Korean, motivated by sound-symbolic effects. Probably…