film, membrane, pellicle (thin layer) · membrane (enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film) · diaphragm (separating membrane or sheet of muscle)
çekim: çoğul kalvot · tamlayan kalvon
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kalvo, possibly from Proto-Uralic *kaĺwɜ (“membrane”) (compare Hungarian hályog).
köken: A Wanderwort, via Ancient Greek and Latin. Compare Koine Greek χαρτίον (khartíon, “paper, papyrus”), Latin charta (“papyrus”) and carta. Doublet of kártya.
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek περιτόναιον (peritónaion), from περιτόναιος (peritónaios), from περίτονος (perítonos, “covered with something stretched over”) + -αιος (-aios, “adjective suffix”).
membrane, a flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments: · a mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force
çekim: çoğul membran-membran
köken: From Dutch membraan, from Middle French membrane, from Latin membrana, itself from membra, plural of membrum (“member, limb”) + -anus (“-ane”).
Unknown. Probably related to Asturian tiez, and also perhaps to Spanish and Portuguese tez (both connected to Latin aptus (“robust, healthy, appropriate”)), but the etymology proposed for Coromines can't explain the Galician forms.