köken: From Middle High German abfal, abefal, equivalent to ab- (“from”) + Fall (“fall”). Cognate with German Low German Offall, Dutch afval, English offal, Swedish avfall. Compare typologically Bulgarian отпадък (otpadǎk), Czech otpad, Serbo-Croatian отпад (< Proto-Slavic *otъpadъ < *otъ + *padati). Also compare French déchet (<< Latin dēcidō < dē- + cadō).
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian اَخْلَاط (axlāt), from Arabic أَخْلَاْط (ʔaḵlāṭ), plural of Arabic خِلْط (ḵilṭ, “anything that blends into a mass”). Compare Uzbek axlat, Tajik ахлот (axlot).
köken: From Middle Dutch afval, shortening of slachtafval (“that which fell off from slaughtered meat.”), equivalent to af + val or a deverbal from afvallen. Compare English offal.
items that are useless or without value, junk, rubbish · a person who is useless or without value, trash
köken: Compound of がら (gara), from がらがら (garagara), an onomatopoeia for the sound of objects bumping against each other + くた (kuta), perhaps a contraction of 芥 (akuta, “trash, rubbish”) or related to verb 朽つ (kutsu, “to rot”, Classical and Old Japanese form of modern 朽ちる (kuchiru, “to rot”)). Compare other terms containing this くた (kuta) element, such as くたくた (kutakuta, “broken down, worn out”), 草臥れる…
köken: First attested in the Gyeongsinnok eonsok (敬信錄諺釋 / 경신록언석), 1796, as Early Modern Korean 쓸어기 (sseureogi). Perhaps related to Middle Korean ᄡᅳᆯ다 (Yale: psulta, “to sweep”).
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit कच्चर (kaccara, “dirty, vile”). Compare Gujarati કચરો (kacro), Marathi कचरा (kaċrā). as well as phonologically similar terms such as Maharastri Prakrit 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀯𑀸𑀭 (kaccavāra), Sanskrit कङ्कर (kaṅkara), कट्वर (kaṭvara), etc. The variety of forms points to a substrate borrowing; compare Kannada ಕಸ (kasa, “dirt”), Tamil கசடு (kacaṭu).
köken: Etymology tree Latin pūrgō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin pūrgāmentum From pūrgō (“to clean; to purge”) + -mentum.