köken: From Middle High German īwe, from Old High German īwa, from Proto-West Germanic *īwā, īhwā, *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īwō, *īhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with dated Dutch ijf, English yew, Lithuanian ievà, Russian ива (iva). Middle High German postvocalic -w- was normally lost. It has been preserved in ewig, Löwe, and with secondary hardening to -b- in Eibe and Hieb.
köken: From Middle Dutch *îwe f (attested as uwe and ieve, the latter being a conflation with the unrelated word for “ivy”), from Old Dutch *īwa, from Proto-Germanic *īwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with German Eibe, English yew.
yew tree (Taxus baccata, literally: “yew spruce”). · strip, withy, or wattle of willow (vide) or sallow (sälg), respectively willow or sallow bush
çekim: çoğul idegranar · tamlayan idegrans
köken: Compound of ide (“yew”) + gran (“spruce”), from Old Swedish idhe, yew, from Old Norse *iði, from *iðja (“greenery”, literally “yew + collective suffix”), from an earlier *īṷiþia, from Proto-Germanic *īwiþia, *īhwiþia, a collective form of *īhwaz (“yew”) + *-iþia (“collective suffix”). Compare Swedish vide (“willow”), vidja (“withy, wattle”).
A yew (tree). · A javelin made of the wood of the yew tree.
çekim: çoğul taxī · tamlayan taxī
köken: A loanword of Scythian origin, from Proto-Iranian *taxša, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to flee, run”), as the fruit was considered poisonous. Also compare modern Persian تخش (taxš, “crossbow”).
yew, especially the common yew (Taxus baccata) · yew (wood)
çekim: çoğul teixos
köken: Inherited from Latin taxus.
aile: teixar, teixeda
Etimoloji
Inherited from Middle French if, from Old French if, from northern Vulgar Latin *ivus (“yew tree”), from either Proto-Celtic *iwos or Proto-Germanic *īhwaz, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with Breton ivin, Welsh ywen, Old Irish eó (in Celtic), English yew, Dutch ijf, German Low German Iev, German Eibe (in Germanic), and further with Russian ива (iva) etc.