replication (the act of replicating) · replica (an exact copy) · answer (document filed in response to a complaint)
çekim: çoğul réplicas
köken: Deverbal from replicar (“to replicate”), from Latin replicāre (“to fold”), from re- + plicō (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”).
match (attribute equaling or exceeding), equal · like (something similar to a given person or object) · likeness, counterpart
çekim: çoğul macasamhla · tamlayan macasamhla
köken: From Middle Irish maccasamla. Apparently a phrase meaning literally “child of likeness” (macc (“son, child”) + samla, the genitive of samail (“likeness”)), though Marstrander suggests that the first element is actually Old Norse maki (“match”). This suggestion explains the presence of the second a; the “child of likeness” interpretation would then be folk etymology, triggering the loss of that a…