caterpillar, leafworm (larva of a butterfly or moth)
çekim: çoğul gąsienice · tamlayan gąsienicy
eş: gw. (Górny Śląsk) gónsióna
köken: Inherited from Old Polish wąsienica. The initial g- is prothetic or by conflation with Proto-Slavic *gušterica (“lizard”). Compare Bulgarian гъсе́ница (gǎsénica), Czech housenka, Lower Sorbian guseńca, Macedonian гасеница (gasenica), Old Church Slavonic юсеница (jusenica), Russian гу́сеница (gúsenica), Serbo-Croatian gȕsenica, Slovak húsenica, Slovene gosẹ̑nica, Ukrainian гу́сениця (húsenycja),…
continuous track, caterpillar track, track (a continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted instead of wheels to crawlers, bulldozers, tanks and similar off-road vehicles)
çekim: çoğul hernyótalpak
köken: From hernyó (“caterpillar”) + talp (“sole, foot, bottom, mounting”). First attested in 1937.
caterpillar (a lepidopteran larva) · caterpillar track · caterpillar (a vehicle with caterpillar tracks)
çekim: çoğul erugues
köken: Inherited from Latin ērūca, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer(s)-uk-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”). Compare Occitan eruga, Sardinian ruga.