köken: Borrowed from Low German Feudel, Feul, Feil, either from or cognate with Dutch feil (“floorcloth”, attested 1616). Further origin uncertain. Ripuarian Fuddel (“old rag”), if related, would suggest that the d is original, whereas all of the following theories require that it is due to hypercorrection: * From Old French faille (“headscarf, veil”), but this is itself of unknown origin and the sense…
köken: From chiffe + -on. Chiffe is from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”) from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”) from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to chip, shave, splinter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). More at English chip.
a skint, chronically poor person behaving as such, having cheap manners, needy · a petty person · an impudent / insolent fellow; a person displaying exceptionally low morals or lacking in ethics
çekim: çoğul cındırlar · tamlayan cındırın
köken: Possibly a shortening from the original nominalizing reduplication of cırmaq (“to tear, tear apart”) - cır-cındır (“rags, rags and tatters”). Compare Turkish çındır (“sinewy piece of meat”).
köken: Uncertain. Potential cognates include Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”) (from Proto-Hellenic *pān-) and maybe also πήνη (pḗnē, “woof thread”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰 (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane (from Proto-Germanic *fanô). Because of the variation in vowel and consonant length between these terms, De Vaan 2008 denies the possibility of reconstructing any common…