wood (material) · a particular kind of wood · a piece of wood, usually small
çekim: çoğul Hölzer · tamlayan Holzes
eş: Xylem, Gehölz, Wäldchen, Busch, Tännicht
köken: From Middle High German holz, from Old High German holz, from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą. Compare English holt (“thicket, copse; an otter's den”).
wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree) · wood (wood of a particular species of tree) · wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
eş: xylème secondaire, xylographie
köken: Inherited from Middle French boys, from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.
aile: Belle au bois dormant, bois de bombarde, bois de chauffage, bois de chauffe, bois de corail, bois de joli cœur, bois de justice, bois de mangue marron, bois d'œuvre, bois maigre
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).
Traditionally derived from māter (“mother, at least in the sense of 'source'”) + -ia, in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, matter”), introduced by Cicero.