köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyšk' /wēšag/). Cognate to Central Kurdish بیشە (bîşe, “forest”) and Northern Kurdish bîşe (“forest”), Related to Latvian mežs (“forest”), Proto-Slavic *meďà (“boundary of a field”) and the borrowed Proto-Finnic *meccä (“forest”), Ottoman Turkish میشه (meşä, “forest”), Azerbaijani meşə (“forest”), ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos…
köken: ⟨siɡe₂mi₁⟩ → /siɡemi/ → /ɕiɡemi/ From Old Japanese. Derived from the stem of classical adjective 繁し (shigeshi), modern 繁い (shigei, “thick”) + み (-mi, continuative suffix).
köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala) Prakrit जंगल (jaṃgala) Hindi जंगल Inherited from Prakrit जंगल (jaṃgala), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “any arid or sterile region”).