köken: Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French bille (“small ball”), from Medieval Latin billia, from Frankish *bikkil (“ossicle, a die, talus”). Cognate with Dutch bikkel (“dibs, die”), West Frisian bikkel (“die”), German Bickel (“marble”).
aile: bille en tête, roulement à billes, stylo à bille, toucher sa bille
köken: Of Iranic origin; perhaps entered standard Persian as a dialectal form or from another Iranian language. Compare Classical Persian دیده (dīda, “iris, eye”), Middle Persian tytk' (*tīdag, “pupil”), and Baluchi تیلگ (tilag, “eye”).
marble (small ball used in games) · glass bead, pearl, precious gem
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 區戌 (Yale: *kwùsúl). In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 구슬〮 (Yale: kwùsúl). Related to, and possibly a suffixed form of, an element found in two ancient place name glosses from the Samguk Sagi: pseudo-Goguryeo 古斯 (*kwos(V)), apparently meaning “jade; precious…
door handle · doorknob · crank (a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device)