köken: From Middle High German œde, ōde, from Old High German ōdi, from Proto-West Germanic *auþī (“empty, barren”), from Proto-Germanic *auþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtyos (“forlorn, deserted”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away from”).
Die ehemalige Hauptstadt ist jetzt eine öde Ruine.
Hier in dieser öden Heide / ist das Lager aufgebaut.
köken: From Old Japanese. First attested as sabusi in the Man'yōshū, completed sometime around 759 CE. Generally thought to derive from 荒ぶ (sabu, “to be desolate, to be lonely”), modern 錆びる (sabiru, “to rust, to get old”, intransitive). In early modern times, some dialects shift in reading from /-b-/ to /-m-/, thus creating samishii; similar to 頭 (tsuburi, tsumuri, “head”), in which tsuburi changes to…