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
köken: First attested 1490; borrowed from Catalan or Occitan bosc, from Late Latin boscus or Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz, cognate with English bush, Dutch bos, French bois and Italian bosco.
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…
grove (set of trees, shrubs and other plants, generally smaller than a forest) · woods (land covered with trees, often consisting of only a few plant species)
çekim: çoğul bosques
köken: Borrowed from Provençal bosc, from Latin boscus, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek δάσος (dásos), from δασύς (dasús, “thick, bushy”). Compare typologically English thicket, Russian ча́ща (čášča), akin to ча́стый (částyj).
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
an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna · rock, outcrop
çekim: çoğul fragas
köken: 13th century, from Old Galician-Portuguese, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum, from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”).