dryness, aridity · dry land (opposed to water) · drought
çekim: çoğul خشکیها
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah Persian خُشْک Middle Persian 𐭩𐭧 (yḥ /-īh/) Persian ـِی Persian خشکی From خُشْک + ـِی.
mainland (main landmass of a country, continent or sometimes of a group of islands) · continent
çekim: çoğul manteret · tamlayan manteren
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mandër, from Proto-Finno-Permic [Term?] or possibly from Proto-Finnic *maa. Equivalent to *mante- + -re. Cognate to Estonian mander and Veps mandreh.
a continent, perhaps the same as either châu lục (“geopolitical continent”) or lục địa (“geographical continent”) · clipping of Trung Quốc đại lục (“mainland China”)
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 大陸 (“continent”).
Literally, “big land”. The noun tír (“land”) is feminine in modern Irish, so lenition of the adjective mór (“big, great”) is expected and sometimes encountered. The standard form tír mór lacks lenition because tír was originally neuter, and adjectives are not lenited after neuter nouns. The lack of lenition has led Ó Dónaill’s dictionary to assign masculine gender to this phrase, but the only…