driver, coachman, charioteer, cabman, postilion engaged in transporting people and cargo by horse and carriage · Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) · fence; brothel keeper
çekim: çoğul ямщики́ · tamlayan ямщика́
eş: извозчик, кучер, возница, почтарь
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic ямьщикъ (jamĭščikŭ), from Turkic. Compare Tatar ямчы (yamçı), Turkish yamçı. Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠵᠠᠮᠴᠢ (ǰamči) (see Mongolian зам (zam)). Ending modified under the influence of -щик (-ščik).
köken: δεντρο- (dentro-, “δέντρο "tree"”) + τσοπανάκος (tsopanákos), diminutive of τσοπάνος m (tsopános), a variant of τσοπάνης m (tsopánis, “colloquialm vernacular for "shepherd"”).
köken: Back-formation from csúszkál (“to slide, slither”), referring to the bird's habit of foraging while descending trees head first. First attested in 1787. Compare csúszka (“slide”).