stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit) · group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.) · core
çekim: çoğul noyaux
zıt: attaque, coda
köken: Inherited from Middle French noyau, backformed from Old French noiaus, plural of noial, a variant of Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”), diminutive of nōdus (“knot”), or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”), derivative of nux (“nut”). Compare English newel and noil.
nucleus (core, central part of something) · nucleus (initial part which will receive additions) · nucleus (massive, positively charged core of an atom)
çekim: çoğul núcleos
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin nū̆cleus (“kernel, core”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)bor. Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra)lbor. Hindi केंद्र Learned borrowing from Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra). Doublet of सेंटर (seṇṭar).
nucleus, cell nucleus (large organelle found in cells which contains genetic material) · nucleus (hard, central part of the lens in an eye) · synonym of ydin (“kernel (of a nut, fruit, etc.)”)
çekim: çoğul tumat · tamlayan tuman
köken: From Proto-Finnic *tuma, possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *tuŋa, although -ŋ- > -m- would be irregular. Cognates include Erzya тов (tov, “kernel”).