egg (spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development) · egg (of a hen, used as food) · egg (anything shaped like an egg)
çekim: çoğul αβγά · tamlayan αβγού
köken: Back-formation from the plural αβγά (avgá), itself extracted from ταβγά (tavgá, “the eggs”), a regular phonological development of Ancient Greek τά ᾠά (tá ōiá): :τά ᾠά /ta.oˈa/ → *τα ωγά /ta.oˈɣa/ → [tawγá] /tau̯ˈɣa/ → ταβγά /tavˈɣa/. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm via Proto-Hellenic *ōyyón.
an egg (approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals housing the embryo during its development) · egg (the contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs used as a food) · an egg (something resembling an egg)
çekim: çoğul äggs · tamlayan äggs
köken: From Old Swedish æg, from Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
köken: From Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją, cognate with Norwegian egg, Swedish ägg, German Ei (English egg is a loan from Old Norse). The Germanic noun derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), cf Latin ōvum, Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión), and Polish jajo.