farm, farmstead, of any size, but especially a small one
çekim: çoğul Gehöfte · tamlayan Gehöftes
eş: Bauernhof
köken: From Middle High German gehüfte, so attested 1309 in Königsdorf near Cologne; later also in East Central German gehoffte (and variants). Collective formation from Hof (“yard, farmyard, farm”). Regarding the Dutch colonisation in the east, it is possible that the German word goes back to Middle Dutch, in which ghehuchte, ghehochte, from Old Dutch *gihufti, is older and commoner. Plausibly the same…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Iranian *wi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwas- Proto-Iranian *Hwah- Proto-Iranian *wi-Hwah- Middle Persian gyʾg (gyāg) Persian جا Inherited from Middle Persian gyʾg (gyāg, “place”), from Proto-Iranian *wi-Hwah-, from *wi- + *Hwah- (“to dwell”).
earth · land · land; real estate or landed property
çekim: çoğul ерҙәр · tamlayan ерҙең
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yẹr (“earth; land”). Cognate with Tatar җир (cir), Kazakh жер (jer), Kyrgyz жер (jer), Southern Altai јер (ǰer), Uzbek yer, Turkish yer (“land; earth”), etc.
a position (same location/orientation duality as in English); a location, a site · a situation, a state · an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)
çekim: çoğul lägen · tamlayan läges
köken: Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
place, site · space, room, space · vacancy (e.g. for a job)
çekim: çoğul जगहें
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian جایگاه (jāygāh), جاگه (jāgah), from جا (jā), جای (jāy, “place”) + ـگاه (-gāh, “location suffix”). Cognate with Assamese জেগা (zega), Bengali জায়গা (jaẏga), Gujarati જગ્યા (jagyā), Marathi जागा (jāgā), Nepali जग्गा (jaggā), Old Deccani جاگاہ (jāgāh), Odia ଜାଗା (jāgā), Punjabi ਜਗ੍ਹਾ (jaghā). The shortening of the vowels may be due to influence from जगत् (jagat,…