köken: From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.
small things; random assortment of things; bits and pieces, odds and ends, dribs and drabs · insignificant details and/or circumstances · unimportant events or activities
items that are useless or without value, junk, rubbish · a person who is useless or without value, trash
köken: Compound of がら (gara), from がらがら (garagara), an onomatopoeia for the sound of objects bumping against each other + くた (kuta), perhaps a contraction of 芥 (akuta, “trash, rubbish”) or related to verb 朽つ (kutsu, “to rot”, Classical and Old Japanese form of modern 朽ちる (kuchiru, “to rot”)). Compare other terms containing this くた (kuta) element, such as くたくた (kutakuta, “broken down, worn out”), 草臥れる…
köken: From Late Latin materiale, neuter of materialis, from Latin māteria (“matter”), from māter (“mother”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”).
köken: From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baraŋ (“marker of indefiniteness”). Meaning of "thing", "goods" or "item" was a late innovation in western Indonesia. First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (varaṃ).