a guild, feudal professional corporation with a legal status and privileges · name of certain modern societies
çekim: çoğul gilden
köken: From Middle Dutch gilde, ghilde, gulde, from Old Dutch *gilda, from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”).
brotherhood (an association, society, or community of people linked by a common interest, religion, or trade) · fraternity (a group of people sharing a common profession or interests)
çekim: çoğul bractwa · tamlayan bractwa
eş: towarzystwo, konfraternia
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Balto-Slavic *brā́ˀtē Proto-Slavic *bràtrъ Old Polish brat Polish brat Proto-Indo-European *-tusder. Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo Old Polish -stwo Polish -stwo Polish -ctwo Polish bractwo From brat + -ctwo.
köken: Borrowed from German Zeche; more specifically, from Bavarian Zech in one of its obsolete senses "association" or "get-together", from Middle High German zech, zeche.