köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cervo, from Latin cervus (“deer, stag”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognate with Galician cervo, Spanish ciervo, Catalan cérvol, Occitan cèrvi, French cerf, Italian cervo and Romanian cerb.
red deer, stag, (North America) elk · forked stakes · runaway slave
çekim: çoğul cervī · tamlayan cervī
köken: Inherited from Proto-Italic *kerwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (whence English horn, hirn, Latin cornū (“horn”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate with Welsh carw (“deer”), and Ancient Greek κεραός (keraós, “horned”). The first-syllable -e- was likely taken from the PIE root noun *ḱerh₂s (“horn”) (itself eventually lost in Latin), while the shift in meaning from…
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *elénjas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“red deer, elk”). Cognate with Latvian al̂nis, Proto-Slavic *(j)elenь, Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”), Old Armenian եղն (ełn, “hind”).
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bréidis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreydʰ-, together with a variant *bʰrent-, both from the stem *bʰer (“to swell”) (whence also briest (“to swell”), q.v.). The meaning apparently changed as follows: “swollen, big” > “having a big, well-developed body” > “strong, imposing (animal).” At first this word apparently referred to elks, and only later to deer; the meaning “elk”…