köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
carapace (dorsal part of a turtle's shell) · shell (external covering of crustaceans) · shell (exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects)
çekim: çoğul carapaças
eş: frústula
köken: Etymology tree substrateder.? Spanish carapachobor. French carapacebor. Portuguese carapaça Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho.
scale, keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals, particularly fish or reptiles · plaque (symptom of psoriasis) · case, casing, the outer part of an ammunition cartridge
çekim: çoğul łuski · tamlayan łuski
eş: łupina, gilza
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *luska Polish łuska Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luska.
köken: Unknown. Probably from Latin solidus (“gold coin”) (contracted to soldus in Late Latin- compare Italian and Portuguese soldo, Spanish sueldo, French sou, etc.), through an early Romanian root *soldu and its plural *solḑi. Thus possibly a doublet of solid. Other theories suggest Slavic *sъlzъ, but this is less likely. Also possibly an expressive creation.
From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.