snail · the “@” symbol, commercial at, at sign · pasta shells
çekim: çoğul chiocciole
eş: lumaca, coclea, riccio, codolo, madrevite
köken: From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”). Compare with Sardinian còciola and Sicilian còzzula.
to drink (something) · to consume alcoholic beverages · to drink something
çekim: geçmiş bebi · ortaç bebido · şimdiki bebe
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese beber, bever (“to drink”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti. Cognate with Galician beber and Spanish beber, Catalan and Occitan beure, French boire, Italian bere and Romanian bea.
slug (any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc) · snail (not as a zoological term) (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell, such as ones used as food) · snail, sluggard (slow person)
çekim: çoğul etanat · tamlayan etanan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *etana, further origin unknown. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”) and/or *etunaz (“overeater, glutton”).
Appears to be a compound of なめ (name) + くぢ (kudji). First attested in the 枕草子 (Makura no Sōshi, “The Pillow Book”) of the late 900s. * Japanese sources that discuss the derivation are consistent in describing the first element name as likely from either 舐める (nameru, “to lick”) or 滑らか (nameraka, “slippery, smooth”) in reference to how slugs move. * The latter portion kudji is less clear. Theories…