köken: From blé + Inde. From being something similar to wheat (“blé”) that is used by the American Indians (amérindiens); i.e. of India (d'Inde). From the historic European misconception that the New World, the Americas, were part of India or East Indies.
köken: Univerbation of grano + turco, itself a calque of New Latin frumentum turcicum. Literally, “Turkish corn”, coined by European botanists of the 1530s who were unaware that the plant was introduced from America.
to sew with large stitches · to give to the fire; to throw into the ashes · to be tedious for somebody, to appear as a source of vexation to, to tire, to weary
millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food)
eş: pluimgierst, gele gierst, goudgierst
köken: From Middle Dutch heerse, from Proto-Germanic *hirsijô, potentially derived in turn from an unknown substrate language or, alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“feed, nourish”). Cognate with Limburgish hirs, Old Saxon hirsi, Plautdietsch Hieezh, Old High German hirsi (German Hirse), Alemannic German Hirse.
köken: Likely from 강남 (gangnam, “Jiangnan”, itself a Sino-Korean word from 江南, from 江 (“[Yangtze] River”) + 南 (“south”)) + -앙이 (-ang'i, diminutive suffix).
maize, corn (any plant of the genus Zea) · maize, corn (grain of Zea mays) · corncob (central cylindrical core of an ear of maize on which the kernels are attached in rows)
çekim: çoğul kukurydze · tamlayan kukurydzy
eş: złoto Ameryki
köken: A Balkan wanderword, perhaps borrowed from Ukrainian кукуру́дза (kukurúdza), Serbo-Croatian kukuruz, or Romanian cucuruz. The penultimate vowel in the modern form is likely from influence of -yca. Compare Czech kukuřice.
millet (any of a group of various grasses whose grains are used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world) · millet (the grains of these grasses) · panicgrass (grass of the genus Panicum, some of which are used as millet)
çekim: çoğul hirssit · tamlayan hirssin
eş: viljahirssi
köken: Borrowed from Swedish hirs, from German Hirse.
köken: Attested in Karel Thám's Deutsch-böhmisches National-lexikon (1788), in actual usage at least since 1798. A wanderword, either from German Kukuruz, Hungarian kukorica or Slovak kukurica, in turn probably from Serbo-Croatian kukuruz or Romanian cucuruz (see there for further etymology). The ending of the modern form is probably due to paronymic attraction to common suffix -ice.
aile: kukuřičník
Opogný nápog také milugi, z kukuřice, kterau ženy zwikagi, a s slinámi do nádoby mecý, dělagi.
maize, corn · corncob · pine cone or cone of another conifer
çekim: çoğul cucuruzi · tamlayan cucuruzului
köken: Attested 1575 as Cucurezi, the name of a village (today Cucuruzu, Giurgiu County), as Cucuruz from 1621. As maize (cucurudz, triticum turcicum) in Dictionarium Valachico-Latinum (Caransebeș, c. 1650). From Latin cucullus "hood, doll, cocoon" via a Balkan word – Aromanian cucul, Albanian kukull – with rhotacism l > r and suffix -uz (originally -ëz). The reference is to the wrapped, cocoon-like…