köken: From Middle High German bloc, from Old High German bloc. The more common Middle High German form was originally bloch, from Old High German bloh. The variant prevailed in modern German under the reinforcing influence of Middle Low German block. All from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką. The architectural sense is loaned from English block (and may therefore take a plural in…
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic اَلْمَلْغَم (al-malḡam, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient”), from μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”), from μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).
fence (thin barrier that separates two pieces of land) · wall (structure built for defense surrounding a city)
çekim: çoğul cercas
köken: Deverbal from cercar (“surround”), or from Old Galician-Portuguese cerca (“surround”), from a Vulgar Latin *circa (compare Spanish cerca, northern Italian cerca, French cerce), from the feminine of Latin circus.
aile: cerquilha
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köken: Reborrowing from French amalgame, from Medieval Latin amalgama, from Arabic مَلْغَم (malḡam), from Ancient Greek μάλαγμᾰ (málagmă). Doublet of μάλαμα (málama).
walled enclosure · defensive wall, bawn, bulwark, bailey · breakwater (construction in or around a harbour)
çekim: çoğul bábhúin · tamlayan bábhúin
köken: From Middle Irish badún, possibly a compound of ba (“cows”) + dún (“fortress”) The older spelling badhbhdhún implies a compound of badhbh (“war goddess; vulture”) + dún, though this is semantically unlikely.