snot, booger, bogey (nasal mucus) · snot, slob (any slovenly person who causes disgust)
çekim: çoğul μύξες · tamlayan μύξας
eş: φλέγμα
köken: From Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus”), which shares an origin with μύκης (múkēs, “fungus, mushroom”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include Latin mucus.
hammer, mallet · a disease of animals · the malleus, a small bone in the middle ear
çekim: çoğul malleī · tamlayan malleī
eş: martellus
köken: Disputed. * Schrijver proposes that the term derives from the affixation of -eus to an older form *malalo-, thereby creating *malaleos, which syncopated into malleus. According to this theory, the form *malalo- would derive from *mola-lo-, itself from Proto-Indo-European *molH-lo-. The term would be connected to the root *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), whence also molō (“to grind”) Compare similar…
aile: malleābilis, malleō, malleolus
[…] haud aliter quam cum spectante iuvenca lactentis vituli dextra libratus ab aure
sinistram manum misit ad clavum et dexteram ad fabrorum malleos […]
Unknown. Possibly from a metathesis of Occitan vorm, vorma (cf. also Catalan borm), akin to French gourme, itself from Frankish *wurm; cf. English worm. Alternatively, derived from Latin morbus.