köken: From Middle High German elfenbein, from Old High German elfantbein, from Proto-West Germanic *elpandabain. Equivalent to Elefant + Bein. The loss of initial h- in early modern German was due to the influence of Latin elephās. Since the 19th century the word has been remotivated, somewhat meaningfully (with regard to the pure white colour of ivory), as Elfe (“elf”) + Bein (“bone”).
köken: From Old French (13th century), from either Old Occitan or Italian daga. The Catholicum Armoricum glosses Breton dac as French dague, Latin pugio, adding ou c'est badelaire (Du Cange).
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin columellus (“canine tooth, tusk”) (attested in Isidore of Seville), masculine variant of columella (literally “small column, pillar”), diminutive of columna (“column”). Used Classically to refer to the grinding teeth of horses in Varro and Pliny in the form columellārēs dentēs (literally “pillar-formed teeth”).
köken: From Middle Dutch ivore, ivorie, from Old French ivorie, from Latin eboreus, from ebur (“ivory”), from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”).
corner, nook · angle · heel (end-piece of a loaf of bread)
çekim: çoğul colțuri · tamlayan colțului
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic кольць (kolĭcĭ), from колъ (kolŭ) + -ьць (-ĭcĭ), from Proto-Slavic *kolъ. Compare Bulgarian колец (kolec), Serbo-Croatian kòlac.
ivory (material) · a thing made of ivory. · an elephant
çekim: çoğul ebora · tamlayan eboris
köken: Etymology tree Egyptian ꜣbw Demotic Egyptian ybbor. Latin ebur Loan word, probably from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”), from Egyptian Ab-b-w-E26 (ꜣbw, “ivory, elephant, Elephantine”). Compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”); also note Sanskrit इभ (íbha) and Tigre ኣቦት (ʾabot). In any case, probably cognate with the second half of Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas, “elephant”)