köken: Of unknown origin. Possibly from Picard bidoule, berdoule (“mud”). First attested in 1940 as military slang for a mess (in the sense of a dirty or disordered thing).
köken: Of uncertain origin. Commonly analysed as descending from dialectal 그슥 (geuseuk) or 거슥 (geoseuk), which has been explained as formed by analogy with the Middle Korean interrogative pronoun 므슥 “what” plus the suffix -이 (-i). In Modern Korean, 거시기 functions as an indefinite pronoun and as a discourse marker used when the speaker cannot, does not remember, or does not wish to name something directly.
věc, jejíž název mluvčí nezná nebo si na něj nemůže vzpomenout, příp. věc, která je těžko pojmenovatelná; příp. věc, kterou mluvčí nechce pojmenovat (tabuová náhrada, hesitační slovo)
thing, thingy, whatsit (a placeholder denoting a vague thing, or something whose name is forgotten by the speaker) · thingy, sex organ, genitalia
çekim: çoğul izék
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *atɜ (“thing, object”). Originally izej with the -j noun-forming suffix. Cognates include Mansi ut, Udmurt ot, Finnish asia, Estonian asi.