köken: The root descends from Middle High German wal, from Old High German wal, from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). Cognates include English whale, German Low German Waal, Icelandic hvalur, Danish hval, Swedish val. Although the simplex root also existed in earlier historical stages of German, Grimm claims that the simplex had…
whale (mammal) · whalebone, bone; stay (prop for clothing, in particular corsets) · landwhale
çekim: çoğul baleines
köken: Inherited from Old French baleine, borrowed from Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).
aile: baleine à bec, baleine à bosse, baleine à fanons, baleine bleue, baleine boréale, baleine de Cuvier, baleine de Minke, baleine du Groenland, baleine franche, baleine grise
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish ballena, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (compare Catalan balena, French baleine, Galician balea, Italian balena, Portuguese baleia, Romanian balenă), from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina).
köken: From Middle Dutch walvisch, from Old Dutch walvisk, from *wal (“whale”), presumably to clarify the meaning. Equivalent to wal (“whale”) + vis (“fish”). Old Dutch *wal is from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). See also waldier, walrus, grindewal. Cognate with West Frisian walfisk, German Walfisch. The simple form is cognate…
whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones) · landwhale (an obese person)
çekim: çoğul baleias
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).
köken: From Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”). Cognates include Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma), Old English blōstm, blæd (“leaf”) (English blossom, blade) and Sanskrit फुलम् (phulam).
köken: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 고래 (Yale: kwòlày). Compare Japanese 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).
köken: Borrowed from a Sami language, from Proto-Samic *fālēs (compare Northern Sami fális), from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”). Originally more commonly used as a part of the compound valaskala, for which compare Swedish valfisk.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velьrybъ, a partial calque of Middle High German walvisch, affected by Proto-Slavic *velь (“great”), hence literally “great fish” or “giant fish”. By surface analysis, vel- + ryba.