köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 비늘〮 (Yale: pìnúl). Compare also Gyeongsang 브널 (beuneol) and Jeju 비늘 (bineul).
a mountain rising above the tree line (in the Nordic countries)
çekim: çoğul fjälls · tamlayan fjälls
köken: From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.
scale, keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals, particularly fish or reptiles · plaque (symptom of psoriasis) · case, casing, the outer part of an ammunition cartridge
çekim: çoğul łuski · tamlayan łuski
eş: łupina, gilza
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *luska Polish łuska Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luska.
köken: Unknown. Probably from Latin solidus (“gold coin”) (contracted to soldus in Late Latin- compare Italian and Portuguese soldo, Spanish sueldo, French sou, etc.), through an early Romanian root *soldu and its plural *solḑi. Thus possibly a doublet of solid. Other theories suggest Slavic *sъlzъ, but this is less likely. Also possibly an expressive creation.
scale (unit of measuring) · rota, allocation, management, schedule (of allocating tasks) · position, assignment, duty, function (a position to which someone is assigned)
a meter stick, a yardstick · basis for measuring or assessing the extent or quality of something. · the size ratio between a representation (e.g. a drawing or model) of a thing or a geographical area and the thing or area itself.