köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 비늘〮 (Yale: pìnúl). Compare also Gyeongsang 브널 (beuneol) and Jeju 비늘 (bineul).
a mountain rising above the tree line (in the Nordic countries)
çekim: çoğul fjälls · tamlayan fjälls
köken: From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.
scale, keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals, particularly fish or reptiles · plaque (symptom of psoriasis) · case, casing, the outer part of an ammunition cartridge
çekim: çoğul łuski · tamlayan łuski
eş: łupina, gilza
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *luska Polish łuska Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luska.
çekim: ortaç expānsus · şimdiki expandit · ulaç expandēns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin pandus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin pandō Latin expandō From ex- (“out”) + pandō (“spread”).