köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian боръ m (bor), буръ m (bur), from Proto-Slavic *bȍrъ m, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *barús m, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰor- (“coniferous forest”). Cognate with Belarusian бор m (bor), Polish bór m, Bulgarian бор m (bor), etc.
coniferous forest on sandy soils; pine barrens · heather (Calluna vulgaris)
çekim: çoğul šilai̇̃ · tamlayan ši̇̀lo
köken: Related to Latvian sils, with no certain cognates outside of Baltic. Smoczyński proposes a morphological analysis of the word as *ši̇̀-las, a zero-grade formation from the verb šiẽti (“to drive (a splinter, etc.)”), perhaps due to trees in a forest being "driven into" the soil they grow in.
pine forest, pinewood (forest or grove composed of conifers growing in nutrient-poor sandy soil)
çekim: çoğul sili · tamlayan sila
köken: From an earlier *silas, from Proto-Baltic *šil-, from Proto-Indo-European *sḱl̥-, the zero grade of *skel-, *sḱel-, perhaps from *kel-, *ḱel- (“to dry up”) (whence also Latvian kalst “to dry up”) + *s- (an s-mobile), or perhaps by metathesis from *ks-el-, from *ḱes- (< *ḱs-eH-), *ḱsā- (“burned, dried up”) (whence Ancient Greek ξερός (xerós), ξηρός (xērós) “dry” and Sanskrit क्षायति (kṣā́yati) “to…
aile: sila virsis, sila ziedi, sila ķirzaka, sila strazds, silu mēnesis