köken: From Middle High German slēhe, from Old High German slēha, from Proto-West Germanic *slaihā, from Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sléh₃ikos (“bluish”). Cognate with Dutch slee, English sloe, Swedish slån, and probably with Proto-Slavic *sliva (“plum”), whence Russian сли́ва (slíva) etc.
köken: From a proposed Hispano-Proto-Celtic *agraniō (“sloe”), from earlier Proto-Celtic *agrinyos. From the same source as Irish airne, Welsh eirin, Catalan aranyó and possibly Basque aran (“plum”). Doublet of arándano and perhaps arán.
blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) · sloe (fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa)
çekim: çoğul kökények
köken: First attested in 1184. Borrowed from a Chuvash-like Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).
sloe (the small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn)
çekim: çoğul aranyons
köken: From a proposed Hispano-Proto-Celtic *agraniō (“sloe”), from earlier Proto-Celtic *agrinyos. From the same source as Irish airne, Welsh eirin, Spanish arañón, and possibly Basque aran (“plum”).
köken: From Old Irish áirne, from Proto-Celtic *agrinyos, from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Compare Proto-Germanic *akraną (“acorn”) and Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ (“berry”), and the Iberian loanwords of Catalan aranyó (“sloe”), Spanish arañón (“sloe”), Occitan agreno, Basque aran (“plum”), basokaran (“sloe”), etc.
turtle dove, Eurasian collared dove · blackthorn; sloe
çekim: çoğul kullumbritë
köken: Derivative of *kullumbë borrowed from Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”). The fruit is called after the bird because of its bluish colour, cf. Romanian porumbă (“sloe”) after palumbes (“dove”).