köken: Capitalised from астана (astana, “a capital city”), from Classical Persian آسْتَانَه (āstāna, “a threshold”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾstʾnk' /āstānag/).
köken: From Middle Dutch hôvet-, from Old Dutch hōvit-, from Proto-West Germanic *haubida- (“main”), derived from the noun *haubid (“head”) (whence Dutch hoofd). Cognate with German haupt- and Old English hēafod-.
capital; capital city (place where the seat of a government is located) · capital (the most important place associated with something)
çekim: çoğul capitais
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin capitālislbor. Portuguese capital Learned borrowing from Latin capitālis. Doublet of cabedal and caudal.
köken: First attested in the generic "capital" sense in the Samguk yusa (三國遺事 / 삼국유사), 1281: : The modern sense of "Seoul" is simply because Seoul was the capital of Korea from 1394 onwards. In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 셔〯ᄫᅳᆯ (Yale: syěWùl). Also attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle…