pod, hull, case (also with the particular meanings of botany and ammunition) · a can of beer
çekim: çoğul Hülsen · tamlayan Hülsen
köken: Middle High German hülse, from Old High German hulsa, *hulisa, from Proto-Germanic *hulisō, cognate with Proto-Germanic *huljaną and Proto-Germanic *helaną which yield hüllen (“to wrap”) and hehlen (“to hide”) resp. Related with English hull.
pod (of a pea or bean plant) · A small coin, one twenty-fourth of a solidus
çekim: çoğul siliquae · tamlayan siliquae
köken: Uncertain. Often related to silex (“flint”), but De Vaan suggests a relationship with siligō (“winter wheat”) instead on the grounds of the unusual suffix and closer semantics. Likely of substrate origin.
köken: From Proto-Baltic *pāš-, from the same stem as paksis (“corner junction”): Proto-Indo-European *paḱ- (“to link, to strengthen; joining, connection”). In Latvian, an original *pās- lead to *pāstis (with an extra suffix -t), from which pākstis with an epenthetic k. Semantic evolution: “joint, connection” > “elongated seed cover with two connecting edges” > “dry fruit that opens along lengthwise…