köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic крьстъ (krĭstŭ), from Proto-Slavic *krьstъ. Doublet of Христо́с (Xristós) and крёст (krjost), the inherited East Slavic form.
köken: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒁇 (ṣalāpu)bor. Aramaic צְלִיבָא (ṣəlīḇā)bor. Arabic صَلِيب (ṣalīb)bor. Classical Persian صَلِیب (salīb)bor. Uzbek salib Borrowed from Classical Persian صَلِیب (salīb).
köken: Borrowed from English cross, from Old English cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, perhaps borrowed from Old Irish cros, ultimately from Latin crux.
wooden frame on which criminals were crucified, especially a cross · gallows bird; one who deserves to be hanged · torture; misery
çekim: çoğul crucēs · tamlayan crucis
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis Latin crux Inherited from Proto-Italic *kruks or *krukis (it is uncertain whether the original form was an i-stem), of unclear origin. Pokorny connected Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”) with an assumed extension in *-k-; compare Latin circus (“circle”) and curvus (“curve”). This explanation suffers…
cross (two crossing lines) · crossroads, intersection (crossing roads) · croup (the part of an animal's body around the sacrum, the upper part of the hind legs)
çekim: çoğul krydser · tamlayan kryds'
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German krūze, krūce, from Old Saxon krūci, from Latin crux. Compare also German Kreuz, Dutch kruis, with diphthongs going back to a long vowel, which points to a late borrowing (with a medieval pronunciation of the Latin word). English cross, with a short open vowel, is derived independently from Old Irish cros, from a Vulgar Latin pronunciation with /o/ from short u.…