köken: From Proto-Iranian *čāt- / *čāθ- (“pit, well”), from an early derived form of Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH- (“to dig”). Cognate with Sanskrit चात्वाल (cātvāla, “a hole in the ground for constructing the Uttara-vedi, performing oblations, or for sacrificial fire”).
a pit trap or snare · a hole in the top of a box or other container for dropping things in · a deliberate ploy to deceive someone into a bad situation: a deliberate pitfall
köken: Compound of 落(お)とし (otoshi, “dropping, making something fall”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 落(お)とす (otosu, “to drop something, to make something fall”)) + 穴(あな) (ana, “hole”). Originally referred to a kind of trap. First attested to the early 1200s.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 굳 (Yale: kwut). The modern form is equivalent to 굳 (gut) + -엉 (-eong, diminutive suffix) + -이 (-i, noun suffix), and is first attested in the mid-nineteenth century.
pit (hole in the ground; sinking into something; bottom of something) · bottom (lower part of something) · cavity; fossa (cavity in the body of a human or animal)
çekim: çoğul doły · tamlayan dołu
zıt: góra
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *dȍlъ Old Polish dół Polish dół Inherited from Old Polish dół.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey- Proto-Indo-European *skeyd-der. Sanskrit छि॒द्र (chidrá) Prakrit 𑀙𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤 (chidda) Sanskrit छेद (cheda)influ. Hindi छेद Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit छिद्द (chidda), from Sanskrit छिद्र (chidra). Influenced in form by Sanskrit छेद (cheda), also from the root छिद् (chid). Doublet of छिद्र (chidra).
hole, gap, opening · aperture · hole (lack of an electron)
çekim: çoğul aukot · tamlayan aukon
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aukko (compare Estonian auk, Votic aukko), either derived from the same root as avata, aukea, or alternatively proposed to be a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”).
köken: From a Vulgar Latin root *cavula, diminutive of Late Latin cava, from Latin cavus, cavum, or reformed through *găuri, the plural of a hypothetical earlier Romanian *gău, from cavus. Cf. zgău. Compare also Aromanian gavrã; cf. Albanian gavër.
köken: De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related. Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).
köken: From Old Norse hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą, cf. English hole and German Höhle. The noun is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”) (see below). Related to hule (“cave”).