köken: From Middle High German kīl, from Old High German kīl, from earlier *kīdla-, from the same root as Proto-West Germanic *kīnan (“to split; crack”). Cognate with Vilamovian kajł.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cunna, cuna, from Vulgar Latin *cunea, from Latin cuneus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”). Compare Spanish cuña.
köken: ilman (“of air”, genitive) + suunta (“direction”). Coined by Finnish folklorist and linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853, originally as two words (ilman suunta).
wedge · troops arrayed in a wedge formation · a phalanx (formation)
çekim: çoğul cuneī · tamlayan cuneī
köken: Uncertain root, apparently with the suffix -eus. Various problematic comparisons to either Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) or *ḱúH- (“spike; sting”) (compare Latin culex (“mosquito”), Avestan 𐬯𐬏𐬐𐬁 (sūkā, “needle”), Sanskrit शूक (śūka, “spike; bristle; insect sting”), शूल॑ (śū́la, “spear; stake”) etc.) have been unfruitful; a long vowel (*cūneus) would be expected in the latter case, and the…