köken: From Middle Dutch gruus, from Old French groisse, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *greot, ultimately related to *greutą (“grits, coarse grains”).
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 몰애〮 (Yale: mwòlGáy), from pre-Middle Korean ⟨*mwòlkáy⟩, a form which still survives in eastern dialects as 몰개 (molgae). The diverse dialectal forms suggest that the Middle Korean form is a secondary suffixed word, with the ancestral root being perhaps ⟨*mwol⟩; compare Jeolla Korean 모새 (mosae, “sand”), 모살 (mosal, “sand”).…
köken: Etymology tree Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮𑀼𑀆 (vāluā) Hindi बालू Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮𑀼𑀆 (vāluā), from Sanskrit वालुका (vālukā). Cognate with Marathi वाळू (vāḷū).
sand (fine-grained, finely-ground rock: according to the technical definition, with a grain size between 0.063 and 2.0 millimetres) · gravel (small fragments of rock used to prevent slippery pavement conditions)
çekim: çoğul hiekat · tamlayan hiekan
köken: Derived from hieta, either as hieta + -ikka (< *hiedikka), or as a blend of hieta + hiukka; may be influenced by hiukka in any case. Originally primarily an Eastern Finnish word; considered Savonian by Juslenius (1745). Cognate with Karelian hiekka and Livvi hiekku.
köken: Inherited from Latin arēna. Compare Italian arena, rena, Sicilian rina, Portuguese areia, Aromanian arinã. Now a regional term, mostly replaced by nisip - a Slavic borrowing. Compare arenă, a borrowed doublet.
sand (rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt, forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction)
çekim: çoğul homokok
köken: A very old borrowing from a Turkic language, compare Southern Altai кумак (kumak, “sand”), Yakut кумах (kumaq, “sand”), from Proto-Turkic *kum (“sand”).