köken: From Middle High German böugen, from Old High German bougen, from Proto-Germanic *baugijaną. In early modern German, almost fully merged with related biegen, which used to have the strong 2nd and 3rd persons singular du beugst, er beugt (compare similar archaic forms like du fleugst from fliegen). The later grammarians tried to distinguish the verbs again, though often in ways different from the…
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yā(y). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.
a bend, curve, inflection, something not straight · a twist, change · a bight, broad curvature of a coastline, bay
çekim: çoğul bochten
köken: From Middle Dutch bocht, from Old Dutch *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. Equivalent to buigen (“to bend, bow”) + -t (“verbal noun”).
aile: bochtenwerk, bochtig, haarspeldbocht, kort door de bocht, rivierbocht
bow (weapon) · spring (mechanical device made of flexible material) · bow (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
çekim: çoğul jouset · tamlayan jousen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *jousi (“bow”), from Proto-Uralic *joŋse (compare Erzya ёнкс (jonks, “bow”), Northern Mansi ё̄вт (jōvt, “bow”), Hungarian íj (“bow”), Tundra Nenets ӈын (ŋin°)). * (unit of taxation): Supposedly originally a tax based on the number of men who were strong enough to cock a crossbow (later taken as any man at least 15 years of age) in a household.