köken: Uncertain. Proposals include: # From an anomalous development of Latin conchylium. # From an anomalous development of Latin pecten, pectinem. # From a metathesized form of a pre-Roman root *pekina. # From a diminutive of Latin cuppa (“drinking vessel”).
shell · pendentive · star-like mark on the head of a horse
çekim: çoğul cunchas
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese concha (first attested in the 13th century). From Vulgar Latin *concla, from Latin conchula, diminutive of concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱongʰ-.
Possibly borrowed from Catalan petxina (itself probably derived ultimately from Latin pectinem) and crossed with clòtxina, or perhaps taken from a Valencian Mozarabic term.