cricket (insect of the family Gryllidae) · whim, strange thought, freakish or fantastical idea, spleen
çekim: çoğul Grillen · tamlayan Grillen
eş: Marotte, Tick, Laune, Skurrilität
köken: From Middle High German grille, from Old High German grillo, probably from Latin gryllus (“grasshopper, cricket”), possibly onomatopoetic in origin, but perhaps borrowed in turn from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “Egyptian dance performer; painted caricature”), of unknown further origin.
aile: grillenhaft, Hausgrille
Der Hofrat ging ihm gelegentlich zur Hand bei solchem schwermütigen Getändel, bestärkte ihn überhaupt in seiner Grille.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish grillo, from Latin gryllus, possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “kind of dance performed in Egypt”).
aile: grillo topo, grillotalpa, jaula de grillos, olla de grillos
köken: From Middle Dutch crekel, possibly a diminutive of an older form kreke (“cricket”). Ultimately of imitative origin and related to the root of kraken (“to crack”), with the suffix -el. Related to kriek, English creak.
cricket (insect of the family Gryllidae) · clock or watch · worry, concern
çekim: çoğul grilos
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *grilo, from Latin gryllus, possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “kind of dance performed in Egypt”).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *cirkka, probably ultimately an imitative root + *-kka; cognates include Ingrian serkka, Karelian čirkka, Ludian tširkku and Votic širkkõ (the initial consonant is irregular, but might be caused by the imitative origin or the affectionate nature of the word).
köken: From a Vulgar Latin root *grylliolus, from Latin gryllus, from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “performer in an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature”). The Vulgar Latin form would have normally yielded Romanian *greior initially, followed by later changes; another more likely explanation starts with a root *grillus, leading to an early form *grer, with the duplication of the vowel between two…
cricket (an insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs)
çekim: çoğul tücskök
köken: From an otherwise unattested onomatopoeic stem + -k (diminutive suffix).
aile: tücsköt-bogarat, tücsökzene, erdei tücsök, fekete tücsök, házi tücsök, mezei tücsök, mocsári tücsök, ormányos tücsök