köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic жестъкъ (žestŭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žestъkъ. Cognate to Old Church Slavonic жестъ (žestŭ, “hard”), жестѣти (žestěti, “to harden”). Also related to жесто́кий (žestókij, “cruel”).
thread, string · series, sequence, string · field of study; subject
çekim: çoğul رشتهها
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭱𐭲𐭢 (lštk' /rištag/), from *rišt- (“to twist”, whence Classical Persian رشتن (rištan, “to twist, to spin”)) + -ag. The former is from Proto-Iranian *wrais- (“to turn, to spin”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *wriḱ-yé-ti (“to twist, to bend”). Compare Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬯𐬌𐬀 (uruuisia, “to turn”), German reihen (“to sew loosely”), Latin rīca (“veil”).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïl (“hair”). Cognate with Bashkir ҡыл (qıl, “hair”), Kyrgyz кыл (kıl), Yakut кыл (kïl, “hair”), Uyghur قىل (qil, “hair”), etc.
stern, poop of a ship · a ship · backside of a person
çekim: çoğul puppēs · tamlayan puppium
köken: Uncertain. Pokorny compares Polish pupa (“bottom, rear”) and Ancient Greek πύματος (púmatos, “the last”), from a common Proto-Indo-European *pu (“turned away”), supposedly from or related to *apó (“away, off”), with uncertainties. (However, Pokorny did not consider that the Greek word could just as well reflect *pó-mn̥tos with Cowgill's law.) More information at Sanskrit पुनर् (púnar). An…