köken: A Low and Central German word, attested in High German texts from the 15th century. From northern Middle High German *klumpe and Middle Low German klumpe, both from Old Saxon *klumpo, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”). Cognate with Dutch klomp (whence English clump), Danish klump, Swedish klump.
knot (looping in a string, wire, thread or similar material, that ties or binds things together) · knot (difficulty, hardship; difficult situation) · node, nodule (a thickening of some tissue, usually round or oval; a place where many fibrous elements come together)
çekim: çoğul mezgli · tamlayan mezgla
köken: Perhaps originally an adjective (“knotty”) with an extra l (there are dialectal forms without l, like mezgs “knotty”, as well as older parallel forms with a, like its Lithuanian cognate), from an earlier Proto-Baltic verb *mezg-ti “to braid, to tie in a knot” (cf. its still extant iterative form mežģīt), from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, to tie, to bind”), from which perhaps also mest…