a broad, smoothly curved indentation in a coastline; a bay, a gulf, a bight · a cove (when a sheltered bukt – see also vik) · a more or less circular bend (in a trajectory or something long and narrow)
bay, gulf, inlet (portion of a body of water extending into the land)
çekim: çoğul lahdet · tamlayan lahden
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lakci (compare Karelian laksi, Veps laht, Estonian laht, Votic lahti, Northern Sami luokta), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian lanktis (“arc”)). -ht- in the nominative is by analogy with the oblique case forms; the expected form laksi (compare the declension of kaksi) has fallen out of usage in the standard language, but survives in Swedish-language…
tidal marsh or opening · creek · estuary of a river
çekim: çoğul aestuāria · tamlayan aestuāriī
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der. Proto-Italic *aissus Latin aestus Latin -ārium Latin aestuārium From aestus (“tide”) + -ārium (“place for”).
something swollen, blown up · sweet fritters (type of fried doughy pastry)
çekim: çoğul бу́хти
köken: By surface analysis, бу́хам (búham, “to swell, to inflate (of dough); to bang”) + -та (-ta). Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary additionally compares the sense “fritters” with Romanian bucată (“piece of bread”).
köken: From Proto-Albanian *grykā-, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *grūkā-, from Proto-Indo-European *gruHkeh₂, from older *gruHkó- (“turning, curving”). Orel claims from Proto-Albanian *grīwīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷriHwéh₂, from *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”). While *-iwi- to -y- is possible, there is no explanation for the inherited -kë suffix.