stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit) · group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.) · core
çekim: çoğul noyaux
zıt: attaque, coda
köken: Inherited from Middle French noyau, backformed from Old French noiaus, plural of noial, a variant of Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”), diminutive of nōdus (“knot”), or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”), derivative of nux (“nut”). Compare English newel and noil.
köken: From Middle Dutch kerne, from Old Dutch *kerno, from Proto-Germanic *kernô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-n-on-, *ǵr̥h₂nóm, related to *kurną (“corn, grain”).
nucleus (core, central part of something) · nucleus (initial part which will receive additions) · nucleus (massive, positively charged core of an atom)
çekim: çoğul núcleos
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin nū̆cleus (“kernel, core”).
seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits) · kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence) · ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor)
çekim: çoğul magok
köken: Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *moŋke (“body”). Cognates include Komi-Zyrian мыг (myg, “waist of women's clothing”), мыгӧр (mygör, “body, silhouette, torso”) and Eastern Mari могыр (mogyr, “body, figure”).