köken: Inherited from Middle French guaine, from Old French guaïne, inherited from Latin vāgīna (“sheath, scabbard”). Doublet of borrowed vagin. Cognate with Italian guaina, Catalan beina, Spanish vaina, Portuguese bainha. The change of the onset from Vulgar Latin /v/ to Old French /(ɡ)w/ is due to Germanic influence. One theory sees in it a confluence with Frankish *wāgi (“cup”, compare Old English…
köken: Etymology tree Latin būstum Italian busto Inherited from Latin būstum (“burial mound, tomb”). The semantic shift from “tomb” to “bust” happened via the meaning of “sepulchral statue”.
aile: imbusto, mezzobusto
Chiamansi ancora i sepolcri busti, e questi son detti da' corpi combusti, [...]
belt, a (typically leather) band worn around the waist · belt, roughly belt-shaped area · seat belt
çekim: çoğul gordels
köken: From Middle Dutch gordel, from Old Dutch gurdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz. Equivalent to gorden + -el.
aile: autogordel, Gordel van Smaragd, gordelroos, grachtengordel, jarretelgordel, kuisheidsgordel, onder de gordel, ontgordelen, refogordel, veiligheidsgordel
köken: From Old Swedish *giurdhil (attested in fægiurdhil), from older *gyrþil, from Old Norse gyrðill, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz, equivalent to gjorda (“to gird”) + -el (“instrumental suffix”). Influenced by Low German gördel.
köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قولاك (kolañ, “girth, girdle, belt”). Compare Romanian colan (“girdle”), Macedonian колан (kolan, “belt”), Serbo-Croatian колан (“girth”); other Turkish borrowings. Stefan Mladenov's proposal of Italian origin is only true for Romanian colan (“necklace”).
köken: From Proto-Albanian *wrīpa. Compare Ancient Greek ῥάπτω (rháptō, “to sew together, to stitch”), Lithuanian verpti (“to spin”). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *reipa, to be connected with Proto-Germanic *raipaz (“rope”), in Old High German reif (“rope, cord”), Middle Low German rēp (“sling, rope”), Old Norse reipa (“to fasten with a rope”), and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós. Also…