köken: From Middle High German bire, bir, from Old High German bira, pira, from Vulgar Latin pira, reanalysis of the plural of Latin pirum. Early Modern German birn is from the Middle High German plural and dative/genitive singular, whence a double plural birnen was formed. The contemporary Birne is a new backformation from this plural (perhaps influenced also by the older, still dialectal form bire).…
pear (fruit) · pear (tree) · barrel (part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint)
çekim: çoğul päärynät · tamlayan päärynän
köken: Borrowed from Swedish päron. Doublet of peruna, an older borrowing. First attested in 1750 as maapäärynä (“potato”, literally “ground pear”), and first in the current sense in 1776 (in päärynäpuu (“pear tree”)). Compare Karelian piärynä.
pear (edible fruit similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem) · pear tree (Pyrus communis, a type of fruit tree producing pears) · pearwood (the wood of the pear tree)
çekim: çoğul körték
köken: Derived from the earlier form körtvély, probably borrowed from a Turkic language, compare Crimean Tatar kertme (“pear”).
köken: * Per De Vaan a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source, original form something like (a)pisom reflected also in Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́πῐον (ắpĭon, “pear”) and ᾰ̓́πῐος (ắpĭos, “pear tree”). Also compare Aramaic 𐡐𐡀𐡓𐡀 (pera, “fruit”). * Per Trubachyov ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peys-, akin to Latin pinsō, pistus, Proto-Slavic *pьšeno (whence Russian пшено́ (pšenó)). Compare…
aile: perula, pirācium, pirārius, pirifōrmis
Si in pirum silvaticam inserueris pirum quamvis bonam, non fore tam iucundam, quam si in eam quae silvestris non sit.
From Old Swedish pæra, pærun, from Old Norse pera f, from Vulgar Latin *pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum, but reanalyzed as feminine singular, + -on (neutral noun-forming suffix; used in the names of fruits and berries). The sense "parent" probably originates from the similarity to English parent.