köken: Borrowed from Lombardic melm or similar Germanic root, with meaning similar to Dutch melm (“dry earth”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malaną.
köken: From Middle Dutch bri, from Old Dutch *brī, from Proto-West Germanic *brīw, possibly from Proto-Germanic *brīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréy-u-s ~ *bʰr̥y-éw-s, from *bʰr-ey-, from *bʰer- (“to boil”), cognate with Latin frīgō (“to roast”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast”).
aile: balkenbrij, brijachtig, brijig, krentenbrij, krentjebrij, om de hete brij heen draaien, rijstebrij, woordenbrij
birdlime (adhesive substance used for trapping birds)
köken: Compound of 鳥 (tori, “bird”) + 黐 (mochi, “birdlime, a glue-like substance used to trap birds and other small animals”). Birdlime was originally called just 黐 (mochi), which term is still in use. To disambiguate, the more specific term 鳥取黐 (tori tori mochi, literally “bird catching mochi”) arose in roughly the Kamakura Period, shortening later in roughly the Muromachi Period to just 鳥黐 (torimochi).
aile: 鳥黐の木: alternative for 黐の木, alternative for 山車
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…
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.