köken: Inherited from Old French seu, sieu (with -f added by analogy with other words), from Latin sēbum, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out”). Doublet of the borrowed sébum.
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (TLBA /pīh/, “fat, tallow”), from Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian *piHtú, from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂tu.
köken: Borrowed in the sense “sebum” in the early 20th century from German Talg (“tallow; sebum”), from Middle Low German talg, from Old Saxon *talg, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz. For “tallow”, the standard Dutch form was talk, but the borrowed form is now preferred in this sense as well, probably in order to avoid the homophony with talk (“talc”). This development may…
suet (fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys) · tallow (hard animal fat obtained from suet) · sebum (thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin)
fat, tallow, grease, lipid · The water-insoluble white solid matter accumulated under the skin or around the viscus of an animal. · The main component of animal and vegetable fats, the ester of fatty acids and glycerol.
çekim: çoğul rasvad · tamlayan rasva
köken: From Proto-Finnic *rasva, borrowed from Germanic (compare German Gekröse (“intestines, bowels”) and Dutch kroos (“the viscera of an animal”)). Cognate with Finnish rasva, Votic razvõ, Livvi razvu, Livonian razā, Ingrian razva, Ludian razv and Veps razv.
köken: From Old Norse tolg f, from Proto-Germanic *talgō f. The u-mutation of a to ǫ is regular, as well the lengthening to ǭ before lg, but the further raising to o/ó is unexpected. The masculine and neuter alternative forms point to Proto-Germanic *talgaz m and *talgą n which are attested in other Germanic languages. The alternation g/k is also hard to explain.