an old man · a venerated man enjoying communal authority; elder, patriarch, leader of the tribe, adviser · leader of the family, respected man in the family
çekim: çoğul ağsaqqallar · tamlayan ağsaqqalın
köken: Bahuvrihi compound of ağ (“white”) + saqqal (“beard”).
köken: Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qart, “old man”), Kumyk къарт (qart, “old”). Related to qarï "old" (Old Turkic [script needed] (qarï, “old”), Southern Altai кары (karï, “old”). Perhaps both are derived from a verb *qar- "get old".
grandfather, grandpa, old man · one of the mummers in a Malánka group at New Year's · a person who pours wax/visk for healing purposes (віск зливати (visk zlyvaty))
an old man · Santa Claus, Santa, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, Santa Claus
çekim: çoğul moși · tamlayan moșului
köken: Unknown. Moș and its feminine counterpart moașă (“midwife; old woman”) (which appears to be older) are often considered substratum words related to Albanian moshë or derived from it, but can also possibly be from Latin annōsus (“aged, old, full of years”) with a loss of the initial vowel as in some other cases (compare mătușă, noaten, nămaie), and the -ș- sound formed as with coș. The change of…
old man, older man (typically age 40 or older; older than a iuvenis) · old person, older person · as feminine old woman, older woman
çekim: çoğul senēs · tamlayan senis
zıt: iuvenis
köken: PIE word *sénos From Proto-Italic *seneks, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”). Cognates include Lithuanian senis (“old man”), Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos), Old Irish sen, Proto-Brythonic *hen, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (hana, “old”), Sanskrit सन (sána) and Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs). The use in Latin of an athematic declension with two different stems (nominative senek- and oblique sen-), versus thematic…