köken: From Middle High German hahsen pl (“poplits”) < Old High German hāhsina (“Achilles tendon”) < Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu. Compare obsolete dialectal English huxen.
eş: région tarsienne, fosse poplitée, creux poplité, jaja
köken: From Vulgar Latin *garra, from Gaulish *garra (“leg”) (compare Welsh gar), from Proto-Celtic *garros, which is of uncertain origin; possibly sharing a Pre-Greek / substrate origin with Ancient Greek ἄκαρα (ákara, “leg, shank”).
a neighbourhood of Capelle aan den IJssel, South Holland, Netherlands · a neighbourhood of Nissewaard, South Holland, Netherlands
çekim: çoğul schenkels
eş: schinkel
köken: * (Capelle aan den IJssel) Attested as Schinkel in 1611. Derived from schinkel (“levee connecting two separate levees”). * (Nissewaard) Derived from schinkel (“levee connecting two separate levees”).
The flat part of the foot. · The edge of the eyelid.
çekim: çoğul tarsī · tamlayan tarsī
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τᾰρσός (tărsós, “the flat of the foot; the edge of the eyelid and its lashes”). Has been compared with Armenian թառ (tʻaṙ, “bar for drying grapes”), Old High German darra (“apparatus for drying fruits”), Swedish tarre (“frame for drying malts”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“to dry”). However, for phonetic reasons this is uncertain.
crossbow · hock (the tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)
çekim: çoğul béstas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese baesta (“crossbow”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra). Cognate with Portuguese besta and Spanish ballesta.