köken: Inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, radio, and rai, which were respectively inherited from Latin, borrowed from Latin, and borrowed from Occitan.
köken: From Middle Dutch baken, from Old Frisian bāken. Displaced Middle Dutch boken, from Old Dutch *bōkan. Both forms originate from Proto-Germanic *baukną.
a parish of Vila de Cruces, Pontevedra, Galicia · a locality in A Baíña parish, Agolada, Pontevedra, Galicia · a locality in Luama parish, Ortigueira, A Coruña, Galicia
çekim: çoğul brandarices
köken: Documented in 1087 as Branderici; from Late or Medieval Latin Branderici, in origin a Germanic personal name expressed as a Latin genitive, so meaning "Branderic's property"; from Suevic or Gothic, from Proto-Germanic *Branderīks, from *brandaz (“sword”) + *rīks (“king”).
The kanji spelling is an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 狼煙 /狼烟 (lángyān, literally “wolf smoke”), supposedly derived from the use in China of wolves' droppings in signal fires.