parapet (a piece of wood, generally at chest height, that makes up the inside of a window and is used as support by people leaning against it) · parapet (land mass that protects the defender from frontal fire and allows the firing of their weapon to occur) · balustrade, guardrail (protection at the edge of piers, bridges, terraces, etc.)
çekim: çoğul parapeitos
eş: peitoril
köken: Compound of parar + peito or borrowed from Italian parapetto.
Ela estava sentada no parapeito da janela do quarto [...]
köken: From Old Swedish þriskulde, from Old Norse þreskǫldr, þreskjǫldr, þrepskjǫldr, from Proto-Germanic *þreskwaþluz. Cognates include Danish tærskel, Norwegian Bokmål terskel, Middle Low German dreskelef, English threshold.
köken: Of uncertain origin; perhaps an ancient borrowing from Proto-Permic [Term?]. Compare Komi-Zyrian [script needed] (kosp, “gap, interval”) and Udmurt кусып (kusyp, “threshold”), which are of Proto-Permic origin, preserved in Komi-Zyrian кось (koś) and кост (kost, “gap, distance”), related to Proto-Finno-Permic *keske (compare Proto-Finnic *keski (“middle”)). The correspondence between Proto-Permic…
windowsill (a flat surface protruding from the base of a window frame) · space, part of the wall, under a window
çekim: çoğul palodzes · tamlayan palodzes
köken: Apparently a variant of paloda (“lintel”) (q.v.), ultimately from the same source as the verb lodāt (“to crawl, to creep”), presumably because, since doors were originally low, one had to "crawl" under their lintels to enter the house.