owner, proprietor · someone or something who possesses a certain trait or characteristic · God, Lord
çekim: çoğul egalar · tamlayan eganing
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ایکا (egä), vulgar form of ایدی (idi), from Khorezmian Turkic ایذی (ʾyḏy /iḏi, eḏi/), from Karakhanid اِذٖی (ʾiḏī /iḏi/), from Proto-Turkic *idi. Cognate with Uyghur ئىگە (ige).
matter, material, substance · subject, discipline (particular area of study, especially one taught in a school) · essay (written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject written as part of one's schoolwork)
çekim: çoğul aineet · tamlayan aineen
köken: From *aineh, related to Karelian aineh and Estonian aine (loan from Finnish), probably borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *afniz (compare Swedish ämne (“matter, subject”)). The correspondence of Germanic *f with Finnish i may seem exceptional, but has a parallel in eine. The sense “essay” was coined by Finnish folklorist and linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853 (as ainekirjoitus).
subject (word or word group that is dealt with) · subject (human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined)
çekim: çoğul alanyok
köken: From al- + -any (noun-forming suffix), patterned after Latin subjectum. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
subject; an area of knowledge that is taught or studied in higher education institutions
çekim: çoğul mata-mata kuliah
köken: Compound of mata (“the important part”) + kuliah (“lecture”) (similar to Indonesian mata pelajaran). Compare to Chinese 科目 (kēmù, “course, subject”, literally “branch of study + eye”) and Japanese 科目(かもく) (kamoku, “subject; course”).