köken: From the incorrect folk etymology which connected Quentchen with Quantum (“quantum”) and led to the spelling Quäntchen with ⟨ä⟩ instead of ⟨e⟩ in the 1996 spelling reform.
köken: From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bars, also related to Proto-Mongolic *bars. See Turkish pars, Kazakh барыс (barys), Mongolian бар (bar), Dongxiang basi.
köken: Borrowed from Dutch ons, with some sources also listing English ounce. Considering that English ounce would have been borrowed as アウンス (aunsu), the Dutch origin seems more likely. First cited to 1886.
köken: Internationalism; compare English irbis, French irbis, Russian и́рбис (írbis), ultimately from Classical Mongolian ᠢᠷᠪᠢᠰ (irbis), from Proto-Mongolic *irbis, from Proto-Common Turkic *irbiš.
uncia, a coin of the Roman Republic equal to 1/12 as · inch, a length unit, equal to 1/12 of one foot · An insignificantly small length
çekim: çoğul ū̆nciae · tamlayan ū̆nciae
köken: Building upon Varro, most modern Latinists derive this word from ūnicus (“unique”) + -ia, itself from ūnus (“one”) (from Proto-Indo-European *óynos) in the sense of twelfths making up the base unit of various ancient systems of measurement. Following Heron of Alexandria, Weiss instead postulates a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀγκία (onkía, “uncia”), from ὄγκος (ónkos, “weight”); he considers the…