cradle, crib (bed for a baby) · cradle, birthplace, place of origin · arch, vault
çekim: çoğul berceaux
köken: From Old French berçuel (diminutive of bers) from Vulgar Latin berciolum diminutive of *bertium, from Gaulish *berta, from Proto-Celtic *bertā, variant of *bereti (“to carry”). Compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”). Cognate with Catalan bressol, Portuguese berço and Galician berce.
cradle, crib · birthplace · a type of short cannon
çekim: çoğul berços
eş: berce
köken: Borrowed from French berceau, ultimately from Vulgar Latin berciolum, diminutive of *bertium, from Gaulish *berta, from Proto-Celtic *bertā, variant of *bereti (“to carry”). Compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”). Cognate with Catalan bressol.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kätküt, equivalent to kätkeä (“to hide, conceal”) + -yt. Cognate to Karelian kätyt and Estonian kätki. Mostly displaced (at least in the standard language) by kehto.
köken: Unknown. Usually thought to be a back formation of legăna, or from Vulgar Latin root *lecanis, from Ancient Greek λεκάνη (lekánē). Per Paliga, a substrate word. Compare Aromanian leagãn.
köken: Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). From Proto-Turkic *bẹĺčig (“cradle”). Compare Chuvash пелче (pelč̬e, “swaddling clothes”) and Bashkir бишек (bişek, “cradle”), Turkish beşik (“cradle”).