basin, wide bowl · a swimming pool or other artificial pool · a basin, large hollow, enclosed valley
çekim: tamlayan Beckens
eş: Pelvis
köken: From Middle High German becken, from Old High German becki, beckin, from Vulgar Latin *baccīnum (possibly attested as bacchinon, 6th century), probably from Gaulish. Compare Dutch bekken and further French bassin, English basin.
pond (small lake, often shallow) · lagoon (especially on the Mediterranean coast)
çekim: çoğul étangs
eş: lac
köken: Derived from the Old French verb estanchier, through an earlier form estanc. Unrelated to Latin stāgnum (“pond”), which influenced the change in spelling from ⟨c⟩ to ⟨g⟩.
Étang de Thau
Voyez, près des étangs, / ces grands roseaux mouillés / Voyez, ces oiseaux blancs / et ces maisons rouillées
köken: From вода́ (vodá) + -о- (-o-) + -ём (-jóm), combining form of имать (imatʹ, “to take, originally to have”) (compare 1sg. present е́млю (jémlju)).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kaluža, related to *kalъ (“dirt”). Cognate with Polish kałuża and Serbo-Croatian kaljuža. First attested in the 19th century.
köken: It is generally agreed to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-H- (“to burn bright, gleam; white, pale”), but there is disagreement whether the word is one of the earliest Romanian loans from Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp”), or whether it is a substrate word. Possibly borrowed from Albanian baltë (“mud”) or its immediate Proto-Albanian/Illyrian ancestor. Cognate with Aromanian baltã, Italian palta…