köken: Present participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“to augment”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti Latin crēscō Latin crescens Latin crescentem Old Spanish crescente Spanish creciente Old present participle of crecer. From Old Spanish crescente, from Latin crescentem. By surface analysis, crecer + -iente. Compare English crescent.
a crescent moon on the third day of a lunar month, especially on the eighth lunar month · short for 三日月形 (mikazuki-gata): a crescent moon in general · synonym of 小爪 (kozume): a claw in the shape of a crescent moon
köken: From Old Japanese. Compound of 三日 (mika, “third day of a lunar month”) + 月 (tsuki, “moon”). The tsuki changes to zuki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kaari, from Proto-Uralic *këŋere. Cognate with Estonian kaar. * ((law) code, act): Semantic loan from Swedish balk (literally “beam”), perhaps by comparison with the rib of a boat or ship. * ((taxonomy) division, phylum): Semantic development from “(law) code, act”.