köken: From Middle High German borste, from Old High German borsta, bursta, from Proto-West Germanic *borstā, *burstā, an early stem variant of *bursti, whence German Bürste (“brush”), which compare. Both words originally meant “bristle”, the semantic distinction is a later development. Immediately cognate with Old Saxon bursta (also *borsta as evidenced by Westphalian Boarste, Buoste).
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 머리〮 (Yale: mèlí). Also attested in the Worin cheon'gangjigok (月印千江之曲 / 월인천강지곡), 1449, as Middle Korean 마리〮 (Yale: màlí). Originally identical to the modern animal classifier 마리 (mari). Beyond Middle Korean, attested in the twelfth-century Jilin leishi word-list as 麻帝 *mati, thus a case of intervocalic lenition.…
aile: 곱슬머리, 덧머리, 돌머리, 동의머리, 뒷머리, 똥머리, 머리 깎기, 머리 모양(模樣), 머리글, 머리끈
hair (pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals) · hair (mass of filaments of keratin on the human head)
çekim: çoğul włosy · tamlayan włosa
eş: kłak, kudeł
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂wolh₁ḱis Proto-Balto-Slavic *wálśas Proto-Slavic *volsъ Old Polish włos Polish włos Inherited from Old Polish włos.
aile: bezwłosy, białowłosy, blondwłosy, włochaty, włosowy, o mały włos, o włos, pod włos, anielskie włosy, owłosienie
a single hair · hair (plurally) · a head of hair: locks, tresses
çekim: çoğul capillī · tamlayan capillī
köken: Apparently some diminutive form from the root of caput (“head”). May be cognate with Persian کوپله (kuple, “hair of head”) or Persian کوبله (kôbale).