agency; department; office (state institution responsible for specified concerns) · office; post (public function, e.g. of a civil servant) · mass; office
köken: From Middle High German ambahte, ambehte, ambet, ammet, ampt, ambt, amt, from Old High German ambahti, ambaht, from Proto-West Germanic *ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos. The Middle High German contracted form amb(e)t developed quite regularly, via also attested ammet or ambt, into modern German Amt. Cognate with Dutch ambacht and ambt,…
interchange, hub, circus · knot (speed of one nautical mile per hour) · node
çekim: çoğul κόμβοι · tamlayan κόμβου
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek κόμβος (kómbos) with semantic loan from French nœud for 'hub' and 'node' and from English knot in the nautical sense. Doublet of κόμπος (kómpos).
trunk (usually single, more or less upright part of a tree) · frame (structural elements of a building or other constructed object) · hull (body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane)
çekim: çoğul rungot · tamlayan rungon
köken: Proto-Finnic *runka + -o, the root probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skrunkaz (compare Icelandic skrokkur).