shield (broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body) · shield (anything which protects or defends)
çekim: çoğul boucliers
eş: écu, bouclier précambrien, manteau
köken: Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (“shield with a buckle”), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.
levée de boucliers
He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point.
eş: centro, luogo da colpire, oggetto da colpire, punto da colpire, segno, capro espiatorio
köken: From Old French bersail (“target for an arrow”), from berser (“to hunt with bow and arrow”), from Latin vervēx (“wether, kind of goat; blockhead, idiot”).
target (a butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile) · goal (a result that one is attempting to achieve), objective
scale (ordered numerical sequence used for measurement)
çekim: çoğul asteikot · tamlayan asteikon
köken: aste (“stage, step; degree”) + -ikko. First attested in Frans Ferdinand Ahlman: Ruotsalais-suomalainen ja suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja ("Swedish-Finnish and Finnish-Swedish Dictionary", 2nd edition, 1883-1884).
Inherited from Old Polish tarcza, from Middle High German tartsche, from Old French targe, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge, rim”). Displaced Old Polish paweza and szczyt. Sense 5 coined by Jan Śniadecki.