heap, hive, pile · crowd, lot, group · feces, turd
çekim: tamlayan Haufens
köken: From a merger of Middle High German hūfe (hūf), houf (houfe), from Old High German hūfo (more southern) and houf (more northern), from Proto-Germanic *hūpô and its ablaut variant *haupaz, respectively. With the former is cognate Middle Low German hūpe, with the latter Dutch hoop, English heap. Already in Middle High German the two forms began to influence each other such that the originally weak…
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Catalan bruixa, Portuguese bruxa, Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
aile: ajo de bruja, brujería, brujita, caza de brujas, correo de las brujas, embrujar, garza bruja, Noche de Brujas
witch (sorceress) · witch (term of abuse for a woman)
çekim: çoğul heksen
eş: toverheks, toverkol
köken: From Middle Dutch hexe (15th c.), borrowed from Late Middle High German hecse. Displaced native Middle Dutch hagetisse. Both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Galician, Mirandese, Aragonese, and Asturian bruxa; Spanish bruja; Catalan bruixa and Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
köken: Etymology tree Old Polish czarować Proto-Slavic *-ьnica Old Polish -nica Old Polish czarownica Polish czarownica Inherited from Old Polish czarownica. By surface analysis, czarować + -nica.
group, cluster, band; crowd (of people) (number of things or persons, especially a rather large and unorganized one) · force, troop; (in the plural) troops, forces · a large quantity or amount (of something)
çekim: çoğul joukot · tamlayan joukon
köken: From Proto-Finnic *joukko, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *jaukiją or from older Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).
Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίγα (stríga), the accusative of στρίξ (stríx, “owl”), which also gave strī̆x (“screech owl; witch”), probably of onomatopoeic origin and related to Latin strīdō (“to make a shrill sound”). Compare typologically Russian карга́ (kargá), also considered borrowed, akin to Turkish karga.