chestnut, chestnut-coloured, brown · having chestnut hair, brunette
çekim: çoğul châtains
eş: châtaigné
köken: First attested in the end of the 12th century; a back-formation from châtaigne, re-interpreted as a feminine adjective. Alternatively, inherited from Latin castaneus. The feminine châtaine is only attested since the second half of the 18th century; châtaine is also found as a non-palatalized alternative to châtaigne. Compare invariable marron.
köken: Probably from Latin castaneus, or a back-formation from castaña. Compare Portuguese castanho. Compare also Vulgar Latin *cassanus, from Celtic, and French chêne.
aile: castañar, castaño de India, pasar de castaño oscuro, pato castaño
köken: From Middle Dutch *îwe f (attested as uwe and ieve, the latter being a conflation with the unrelated word for “ivy”), from Old Dutch *īwa, from Proto-Germanic *īwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with German Eibe, English yew.
brown (having brown color) · brown (hair or eye color) · chestnut (having a dark brown colour)
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese castanho (“brown”), probably from Latin castaneus (“pertaining to chestnuts”). Cognate with Galician castaño, Mirandese castanho, Asturian castañu, Spanish castaño and Catalan castany. Doublet of castâneo.
yew tree (Taxus baccata, literally: “yew spruce”). · strip, withy, or wattle of willow (vide) or sallow (sälg), respectively willow or sallow bush
çekim: çoğul idegranar · tamlayan idegrans
köken: Compound of ide (“yew”) + gran (“spruce”), from Old Swedish idhe, yew, from Old Norse *iði, from *iðja (“greenery”, literally “yew + collective suffix”), from an earlier *īṷiþia, from Proto-Germanic *īwiþia, *īhwiþia, a collective form of *īhwaz (“yew”) + *-iþia (“collective suffix”). Compare Swedish vide (“willow”), vidja (“withy, wattle”).
A yew (tree). · A javelin made of the wood of the yew tree.
çekim: çoğul taxī · tamlayan taxī
köken: A loanword of Scythian origin, from Proto-Iranian *taxša, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to flee, run”), as the fruit was considered poisonous. Also compare modern Persian تخش (taxš, “crossbow”).