köken: Unknown, identical to Catalan llonja, alonja (“vegetal matter to make birdlime when mixed with resinous substrate”). Hardly related to ajonjolí since this Arabism lacks in Catalan and the composite plant, to which the meaning of birdlime is secondary, has no commonality with sesame. Latin axungia (“lard”) has other descendants.
köken: From tak (“branch”); the origin of the element mare- is disputed, but is generally related to mare (“nightmare, witch”). Compare, for example, Norwegian Nynorsk marekvist.
köken: First attested in the Dong'ui bogam (東醫寶鑑 / 동의보감), 1613, as Early Modern Korean 겨으살이 (Yale: kyeu-sal-i). From 겨울 (gyeoul, “winter”) + 살- (sal-, “to live”) + -이 (-i).
köken: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱs-, possibly a European borrowing for a tree similar to the mistletoe. Compare also Ancient Greek ἰξός (ixós, “mistletoe, birdlime”), Proto-Slavic *višьňa, Proto-Germanic *wīhsilō, and probably Italian visciola (“sour cherry”), the last likely a Germanic borrowing. Traditionally associated with vīrus, although this is unlikely. Also compare Proto-Germanic…