mite (arachnid) · moth, particularly one whose larva destroys something stored by humans
çekim: çoğul mites
köken: Inherited from Middle French, from Old French mitte (“kind of insect which gnaws on cloth or cheese”), from Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”). Akin to Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), Old High German mīza (“mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyt /wēd/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waytaháh, from Proto-Iranian *waytasás, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis.
moth, Tineidae spp., typically Tineola bisselliella, Tinea pellionella, etc.
çekim: çoğul көйәләр · tamlayan көйәнең
köken: From Common Kypchak *küye, from Proto-Turkic *küńe (“moth”). Cognate with Kazakh күйе (küie), Uzbek kuya, Azerbaijani güvə, Turkish güve (“moth”), etc.
Һеҙ хазинаны күктә йыйығыҙ: унда көйә лә ҡырҡмай, тут та баҫмай, ҡараҡтар ҙа инеп урламай.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *temH- Proto-Balto-Slavic *tímāˀ Proto-Slavic *tьma Old Polish ćma Polish ćma Inherited from Old Polish ćma. The "moth" sense, apparently unattested in Old Polish, appears to be a semantic extension of the "darkness" sense, due to moths being nocturnal creatures with generally dark coloration.
köken: Probably a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to feel, touch, shake”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ (“butterfly”) (whence German Falter), Proto-Slavic *perpelъ (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Mazanderani پاپلی (pāp(e)lē, “butterfly”).