köken: Inherited from Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”), from bousche (“handful of straw, bundle of twigs”), from Vulgar Latin bosca (“brush, bundle of branches”), from Frankish *bosc (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”). More at bush.
aile: bouchon d'oreille, bouchonner, pousser le bouchon, tire-bouchon
köken: First attested in the 증수무원록 / 增修無寃錄, 1792, as Early Modern Korean 즛니기다 (Yale: cus-nikita), from 즛 (jeut, “violently”) + 니기다 (nigida, “to grind”). Equivalent to 짓- (jit-) + 이기다 (igida). The modern reflexes of 즛 and 니기다 are 짓 (jit) and 이기다 (igida) respectively, leading to the modern orthography. However, speakers have actually perceived the verb as a single unit and not a compound, and thus…
köken: Related to Russian да́вка (dávka), дави́ть (davítʹ). Omitting several steps, from Proto-Slavic *daviti, whence also Czech dávit (which, however, had lost the meaning to press). Compare typologically Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)); English throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); English crowd. Also…
a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue · a group, flock, pack (of animals)
çekim: çoğul catervae · tamlayan catervae
köken: Inherited from Proto-Italic *katerwā, of uncertain origin, though Clayton (2024) suggests Proto-Indo-European *ḱátwr̥ (“hostility”). Perhaps related to cassis (“net”) and catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Also compare Albanian thes (“sack, bag”).
constipation (a state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces) · congestion, jam (traffic jam)
köken: From a Central Catalan form of bonior (“buzzing, humming”) with vowel reduction, loss of final r, and nasal assimilation of the initial consonant.