köken: From Proto-Mongolic *gaxursun (“stubble, chaff, shaft of a feather”), see Mongolian гуурс (guurs, “tube, quill”). Cognate with Bashkir ҡауырһын (qawırhın, “feather”), Kyrgyz куурсун (kuursun, “stem of feather”), and Yakut куорсун (kuorsun, “feather”), etc.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pena (displacing pẽa), from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.
köken: From Old Swedish fiädher, fiæþer, from Old Norse fjǫðr (“feather”), from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to fly”).
köken: Inherited from Prakrit पंख (paṃkha, “wing”) (without cluster simplification), a variant of पक्ख (pakkha), from Sanskrit पक्ष (pakṣá). See also पाँख (pā̃kh) and पाख (pākh). Cognate with Punjabi ਪੱਖ (pakkha), Bengali পাখা (pakha), and Gujarati પાંખ (pā̃kh).
feather (a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display) · feather (a feather-like fin or wing on objects, such as an arrow) · pen (a tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks)
wing (of natural or supernatural creatures) · wing as a symbol of speed · feather, especially a flight-feather; pinion
çekim: çoğul pennae · tamlayan pennae
köken: From Proto-Italic *petnā, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”), with pinna apparently representing a dialectal variant with pre-nasal raising. See also pēnis (“tail, penis”), which penna may have been conflated semantically with.