hammer (tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding) · mallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head) · gavel (wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, committee chairman, or auctioneer)
δικέφαλο σφυρί, παρόμοιο με τη βαριοπούλα και τον ματρακά, που έχει ξύλινη ή πλαστική κεφαλή αντί για σιδερένια και χρησιμοποιείται κυρίως σε επιφάνειες από ξύλο ή λαμαρίνα, λευκοσίδηρο
a hammer (tool) · a hammer (in a piano or dulcimer – a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string) · malleus, hammer
çekim: çoğul hammares · tamlayan hammares
köken: From Old Swedish hamar, from Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).
köken: Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Metathesis took place in order to avoid the form *malja, which would have been homonymous with malja (“goblet, bowl, cup, chalice”).
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic маи (mai), from Koine Greek Μάϊος (Máïos), from Latin (mensis) Maius. Less likely a direct derivation from Latin.
hammer, mallet · a disease of animals · the malleus, a small bone in the middle ear
çekim: çoğul malleī · tamlayan malleī
eş: martellus
köken: Disputed. * Schrijver proposes that the term derives from the affixation of -eus to an older form *malalo-, thereby creating *malaleos, which syncopated into malleus. According to this theory, the form *malalo- would derive from *mola-lo-, itself from Proto-Indo-European *molH-lo-. The term would be connected to the root *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), whence also molō (“to grind”) Compare similar…
aile: malleābilis, malleō, malleolus
[…] haud aliter quam cum spectante iuvenca lactentis vituli dextra libratus ab aure
sinistram manum misit ad clavum et dexteram ad fabrorum malleos […]
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan maça, from Late Latin mattia or Vulgar Latin *mattea, probably from Latin mateola, from Proto-Indo-European *mat (“hoe, plow”). Compare Occitan massa, Spanish maza, Portuguese maça, French masse, Italian mazza.