köken: From Middle High German hirs, from older hirʐ(e), from Old High German hiruz, from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz. Cognate with Dutch hert, English hart. When the Old High German -u- was lost by syncope (in inflected forms), the fricative /s̄/ came to stand after a consonant, which regularly it never did. This anomaly was then removed by replacing /s̄/ either with /s̠/…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós Proto-Italic *kerwos Latin cervus Old Spanish ciervo Spanish ciervo Inherited from Old Spanish ciervo, from Latin cervus.
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭠𐭦𐭭 (gʿʾzn /gawazn/, “deer”), from Proto-Iranian *gavasna- (“deer”), perhaps from a suffixed form of *gā́wš (“cow”) + *Hajáh (“goat”), or from the BMAC substrate. Compare Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬯𐬥𐬀 (gauuasna).
a deer, a ruminant of the family Cervidae; sometimes used of members of the families Moschidae and Tragulidae in non-scientific use (see derived terms) · venison, the meat of a deer
çekim: çoğul herten
köken: From Middle Dutch hert, from Old Dutch hirut, from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cervo, from Latin cervus (“deer, stag”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognate with Galician cervo, Spanish ciervo, Catalan cérvol, Occitan cèrvi, French cerf, Italian cervo and Romanian cerb.
reindeer stag (adult male reindeer, sometimes defined as one that is at least three years old)
çekim: çoğul hirvaat · tamlayan hirvaan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hirvas, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śirwas. Cognate with Northern Sami sarvvis, which must have either been borrowed directly from Balto-Slavic or (more likely) come via Finnic before *š became h. Doublet of sarvas.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech jelen, from Proto-Slavic *(j)elenь, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-en-i-, which is often being connected with *h₁el- (“yellow-brown”). Its Slavic cognates are Polish jeleń (“deer”) or Russian оле́нь (olénʹ, “deer”), other Indo-European cognates are Lithuanian élnis or álnis (“deer”), Old Irish elit (“roe deer”), Welsh elain (“hind”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)…