snail · the “@” symbol, commercial at, at sign · pasta shells
çekim: çoğul chiocciole
eş: lumaca, coclea, riccio, codolo, madrevite
köken: From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”). Compare with Sardinian còciola and Sicilian còzzula.
arroba, a traditional unit of mass, equivalent to 14.7 kg · at, the name of the symbol @
çekim: çoğul arrobas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese arroba and arrova, from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic اَلرُّبْع (ar-rubʕ, “fourth”) in reference to its making up one-fourth of a quintal. Cognate with Galician and Spanish arroba, Catalan arrova, and Maltese raba’.
köken: Usually derived from German Maulaffe (“gaping fool, gaper”), from Maul (“mouth”) + Affe (“ape, monkey”). However, the German word is attested no earlier than the Polish (both 15th century), it never actually means “ape”, and it poses various phonetic difficulties. The Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter therefore casts doubt on the derivation, though alternative theories are lacking.
köken: From Proto-Slavic *uxo, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ous-. Compare Russian у́хо (úxo) and Belarusian ву́ха (vúxa). Cognate with Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍉 (ausō), Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Latin auris, Modern Persian گوش (guš).
maggot (soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect) · at sign, at (the symbol @, most commonly used in email addresses) · willy, wee-wee (penis, especially that of a prepubescent boy)
çekim: çoğul kukacok
köken: From Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian kúkac (“insect”).
aile: kukacos, sajtkukac, számkukac, gyáva kukac
(their senses may overlap, especially in informal speech)
Mert abból a kukacból, ami a cseresznyében van, kis fekete légy lesz.
Az életrajzokat a dunauto-kukac-dunauto-pont-com e-mail címre küldjék.
strudel · at sign (the symbol @, used in e-mail addresses to separate the user name from the domain name)
çekim: çoğul כְּרוּכִיּוֹת
köken: From the root כ־ר־ך (k-r-kh), mainly associated with כָּרַךְ (“to tie up, to warp, to bind”). Modern-day introduction by the Academy of the Hebrew language.