köken: From Gabel (“fork”) + Reiterin (“(female) rider”), from folk beliefs of witches fork-shaped household immplements, comparable to depictions of them flying on broomsticks.
Gut, gut, unterbrach ihn Pedrillo; ich höre die alte Gabelreiterin auf der Treppe; jetzt ist guter Rath teuer!
[…] suchte demnach bei einer alten Frau welche er für eine Gabelreiterin gehalten, einen guten Rat, daß er möchte zu Mitteln kommen.
she-goat · female horse, mare · bat, bag, witch (old woman)
çekim: çoğul biques
eş: biquette, bourrique, mégère, rosse
köken: Inherited from Middle French bique, originally dialectal (northern France), of obscure origin. Likely of North Germanic origin related to Icelandic bikkja (“old mare, nag”). Compare Norman biche (“goat", also "drunken woman”).
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Catalan bruixa, Portuguese bruxa, Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
aile: ajo de bruja, brujería, brujita, caza de brujas, correo de las brujas, embrujar, garza bruja, Noche de Brujas
köken: From Middle Russian крокодилъ (krokodil). Sense 5 refers to the drug's damaging effects on the skin, possibly related to the chemical name of the precursor α-chlorocodide.
witch (sorceress) · witch (term of abuse for a woman)
çekim: çoğul heksen
eş: toverheks, toverkol
köken: From Middle Dutch hexe (15th c.), borrowed from Late Middle High German hecse. Displaced native Middle Dutch hagetisse. Both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Galician, Mirandese, Aragonese, and Asturian bruxa; Spanish bruja; Catalan bruixa and Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
köken: Either an altered reading from older manyo, possibly to distinguish the senses, or a reanalysis of the term, using the more common reading of jo for the 女 kanji. First attested with this reading in 1910.
broad, bag (a woman) · chip shot (an easy goal) · goof, gaffe (mistake)
çekim: çoğul babole · tamlayan babola
eş: smark, reg. pozn. dundel
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Slavic *bàba Old Polish baba Polish baba Proto-Slavic *-oľь Polish -ol Polish babol From baba + -ol.