clove (aromatic flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum) · carnation, pink (Dianthus caryophyllus) (named by analogy for its clove-like smell)
çekim: çoğul Nelken · tamlayan Nelken
eş: Gewürznelke, Nägeli, Würznelke
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German nēgelke(n) (“little spike, nail”), from Old Saxon nagal (“nail”). Doublet of Nägelchen and Nägelein (archaic). Low German-looking forms are already found in Middle High German negelkīn alongside negelīn; the contraction is first attested in Central German Nelekin. The feminine form in -e is a backformation from the plural. The name is due to the typical form of…
aile: œillet barbu, œillet de Dieu, œillet de mer, œillet de Pâques, œillet de poète, œillet des champs, œillet des chartreux, œillet des fleuristes, œillet des jardins, œillet des prés
köken: Inherited from Latin caryophyllus, caryophyllum, caryophyllon, borrowed from Ancient Greek καρυόφυλλον (karuóphullon). Compare Sicilian garòfalu and Venetan garòfoło.
carnation, pink (any plant of the genus Dianthus) · carnation, pink (flower) · clove (very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree)
çekim: çoğul goździki · tamlayan goździka
köken: Etymology tree Polish góźdź Proto-Indo-European *-eykos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-eikas Proto-Slavic *-ikъ Old Polish -ik Polish -ik Polish goździk From góźdź + -ik.
köken: szeg (“nail [spike]”) + fű (“grass”), originally in the sense szegfűszeg (“clove”), then its meaning was gradually displaced by “carnation”, based on the similarity of the shape and scent of the spice and the flower. For a similar transfer of meaning from the nail to the spice, compare Latin clāvellus (a diminutive of clāvus) and German Nelke.