a scrap, remnant of shattering · damage, harm, wreckage, pieces (as a consequence of an accident) · a lump, chunk, piece
çekim: çoğul brokken
eş: brokstuk, fragment, klont, kluit, homp
köken: From Middle Dutch broc (“broken-off piece”), also attested as plural brocken. Probably from a merger of two interrelated nouns, both belonging to the root of breken (“to break”): * Old Dutch *broc, from Proto-Germanic *brukaz, cognate with Old High German broh, Old English (ge)broc; * Old Dutch *brocko, from Proto-Germanic *brukkô, cognate with Old High German brocko (modern German Brocken). The…
clod (lump of earth) · land, soil · lump, mass of stuff
çekim: çoğul glaebae · tamlayan glaebae
köken: Traditionally considered somehow derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel- (“to form into a ball; ball”) and thereby cognate with globus, glomus, Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), Proto-West Germanic *klott (“clod”) and others, but the precise derivations of this form and its cognates are all uncertain. Alternatively (or additionally) related to Lithuanian glė́bti (“to…
köken: According to Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary, probably from буте́я (butéja, “to swell, to clumb”) (dialectal) + -ца (-ca) (formally reflecting an earlier *butьca).
Inherited from Old French mote (“mound”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”).