köken: From Middle High German milwe, milewe, from Old High German miliwa. Cognate with archaic Dutch meluw (“woodlouse”), Middle Low German mēle (“mite”). Further related with German mahlen (“to grind”), Mehl (“flour”), English meal (“coarse flour”). Also compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉 (malō, “moth”) and Swedish mal (“moth”), which could be related.
tick (arachnid) · leech, bloodsucker (person who exploits or lives off others) · castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)
çekim: çoğul къ́рлежи
köken: Derived from the zero-grade form *(s)kr̥- of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut; to poke; to bite”), extended similarly to пъ́рля (pǎ́rlja) vs. па́ря (párja). Cognates include Macedonian крлеж (krlež), Serbo-Croatian крљ, крља, крлич and Aromanian cãrlej.
köken: Cognate with Latvian ē̃rce, from Proto-Baltic [Term?], of unknown ultimate origin. Compare Proto-Slavic *ràkъ ~ *òrkъ (“crayfish”), in which case a doublet of rõkis; possibly from an extinct substrate language.
tick, mite (numerous species of tiny arachnids of subclass Acari that live as parasites on various plants and animals)
çekim: çoğul ērces · tamlayan ērces
köken: Cognate with Lithuanian érkė, from Proto-Baltic *erkyā- (with er̄ > ē:r), of disputed origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“to tear, to pierce”) (whence also ērkšķis (“thorn”), q.v.) with an extra -(e)k. The original meaning would then have been “one who pierces, tears.” Possible Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit ऋक्षरः (r̥kṣaraḥ, “sting, thorn, spike”), रक्षः (rákṣaḥ,…
kamēr zirgs dzēra, zemniek izrāva ērci, kas bija piezīdušies kaklam
köken: Borrowed from New Latin acarus, from Ancient Greek ἄκαρι (ákari, “cheese mite”), from ἀκαρής (akarḗs, “tiny”).
Etimoloji
/tani/ → /dani/ From Old Japanese. Shift from earlier reading tani, which persists in some modern dialects. The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 壁蝨 /壁虱 (bìshī). The characters literally mean 壁 (“wall”) + 蝨 (“louse”), as an indication that ticks and mites may be found on walls.