broom (shrub), especially · Cytisus · gorse (Ulex)
çekim: çoğul Ginstern · tamlayan Ginsters
köken: From Middle High German ginster, from Old High German genester, byform of genesta, from Latin genista. The form in -r is probably from Old French genestre, an alteration of geneste; compare Italian ginestra. Further cognate with Dutch ginst.
köken: Phono-semantic matching of Arabic جَوْلَق (jawlaq, “gorse, Ulex spp.”) based on the Romance substrate root *arg- related to thorns, compare Aragonese archelaga, archilaga, arxelaga, Catalan argelaga, argilaga, archilaga, French ajonc meaning Ulex, Medieval Latin argilāx, French argalou, Franco-Provençal argelas meaning the related Genista, and French argouse, Spanish arcosse, arcousse, Spanish…
köken: From a diminutive of Middle Dutch gaspe (“buckle”) + doorn (“thorn”). The first element is a variant form of the same word that yielded modern gesp (“buckle”); an oft repeated theory to explain this etymology is that the thorns of this shrub were used as pins for clothing.
köken: From Middle Cornish eithin, from Old Cornish eythinen sg, from Proto-Celtic *axtīnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-stí-, enlargement of *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Compare Welsh eithin, Breton bezhin, and Irish aiteann.