çekim: karşılaştırma harscher · üstünlük am harschesten
köken: From Low German and Middle Low German harsch, from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”); see also Russian короста (korosta, “to itch”), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”). Compare English harsh, which is also borrowed from Middle Low German.
köken: Borrowed from Latin asperum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂esp- (“to cut”). The forms of the Spanish word and its Portuguese equivalent seem to indicate that they may be semi-learned or borrowed terms (the expected normal result aspro was found on rare occasions in Old Spanish documents). However, comparing it to similar cases of phonetic development in Spanish and Ibero-Romance (cf. árboles,…