köken: From Middle Dutch sproete. Probably a byform (relict or eastern form) of spruit (“sprout”), which see. Alternatively an ablaut variant thereof. Compare German Sommersprosse.
köken: From pistru (“regional term describing a sheep with black spots on its head”), from Old Church Slavonic пьстръ (pĭstrŭ), from Proto-Slavic *pьstrъ.
köken: Probably borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). From Proto-Turkic *sep- (“to scatter, sprinkle”).
köken: Etymology tree Latin lēns Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -cula Latin lenticula From lēns + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Etimoloji
Compound of 蕎麦 (soba, “buckwheat”) + 滓 (kasu, “dregs, leftovers”, more specifically, the hulls), from the superficial resemblance of freckles to scattered buckwheat hulls, in color and shape. First attested from 1655. The kanji are an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 雀斑.