the extreme end of something, especially of a linear object · tip, a pointed end · a particular part of the village (street), in respect to the speaker's location
çekim: çoğul остар · tamlayan остоң
köken: From Proto-Turkic *ūč (“end, edge”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (uč, “wing, phalanx (of a military unit)”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (uč, “end, tip”); Kazakh ұш (ūş, “tip, end”), Kyrgyz уч (uc, “tip, end”), Southern Altai уч (uč, “tip, end”), Tuvan уш (uş, “tip, end”), Turkmen uç (“tip, end”), Turkish uç (“tip, end”), Chuvash вӗҫ (vĕś, “end”).
point, tip, cusp, prong, tine (sharp point or pointed end) · lead (the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game) · spearhead (leading military unit in an attack)
çekim: çoğul kärjet · tamlayan kärjen
köken: Probably a shift from kärki (etymology 2). Alternatively, and less likely, related to Livonian kerk (“toe or heel of the bit on an axe”) and Võro kärk (“toe or heel of the bit on an axe”) (Mulgi) (for which one may reconstruct Proto-Finnic *kärkkä).
tip, point (the sharp end of a conical object) · top (the uppermost part of a tree, or of a tower tapering to a point) · peak, summit (the top of a hill, mountain or range, ending in a point)
çekim: çoğul csúcsok
köken: Uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćuća (“point, peak”), in which case related to Erzya цёцяня (ćoćańa).
köken: By surface analysis, acuō (“make sharp or pointed, sharpen”) + -men (noun-forming suffix), from acus (“a needle, a pin”). The linguist Douglas Q. Adams suggests that the form is comparable to Tocharian B akwam, which Adams argues could be a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-u-mn-. However, the Latin form—if inherited directly from Proto-Indo-European—would more likely derive from a term of…
köken: From Malay hujung, ujung, from Classical Malay هوجوڠ (hujung), اوجوڠ (ujung), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzuŋ (“mountain peak, cape of land; tip of anything”), *ujuŋ (“nose”).