köken: Derived in early modern German from the verb eggen, possibly under influence of ecke, also egge (“corner; sharp edge; blade”), whence contemporary Ecke (“corner”). The older Middle High German egede from Old High German egida is only continued dialectally (early modern German eide). The same development in Dutch eg. Cognate to Latin occa, Latin occō (whence Portuguese oco, Spanish hueco).
harrow (device for breaking up soil) · portcullis (gate in the form of a grating) · spike strip, road spikes, traffic spikes
çekim: çoğul herses
eş: sarrasine, herse de labour
köken: Inherited from Old French herce, from Latin hirpicem. The initial aspiration is said to be onomatopoetic, but may also be due to influence by the unrelated Germanic words at hand in Old Norse herfi, English harrow.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *dɨrŋa- (“to scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Bashkir тырма (tırma), Uzbek tirma (“rake”). Compare also with Kyrgyz тырмоо (tırmoo, “rake”), Southern Altai тырмууш (tïrmuuš, “rake”) - these are derived from the same root, but using other affixes.
köken: From тырмоо (tırmoo) + -ч (-c). Compare also with Kazakh тырнауыш (tyrnauyş, “rake”), Southern Altai тырмууш (tïrmuuš, “rake”) - these are derived from the same root, but using other affixes.
portcullis (lifting grate used to secure a gate in a defensive wall) · synonym of brama · cow placenta (sac in which the cow's fetus developed and which is released after calving)
çekim: çoğul brony · tamlayan brony
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der. Proto-Slavic *borna Old Polish brona Polish brona Inherited from Old Polish brona. Doublet of brama (“gate”), derived from Old Czech.
Compound of 馬(うま) (uma, “horse”) + 鍬(くわ) (kuwa, “hoe”), in reference to the practice of using horses to pull, and the shape of the tool as a horizontal support with metal teeth protruding downward, somewhat similar to the way the metal blade of a hoe points downward from the handle when held horizontally. The umaguwa pronunciation appears to be the original form of the word. First cited to the…