eş: adoption, alternative, collection, convenance, cooptation, dessus du panier
köken: Inherited from Middle French choix, from Old French chois, deverbal from choisir, coisir (“to differentiate, see distinctly”), from Frankish *keusan (see contemporary Dutch kiezen), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”) (whence German kiesen (“to choose”)), Old English ċēosan (“to…
aile: de choix, de premier choix, de son choix, embarras du choix
köken: Cognate with Kumyk сайламакъ (saylamaq), Crimean Tatar saylamaq, Uzbek saylamoq, Uyghur سايلىماق (saylimaq), Turkmen saýlamak, Turkish saylamak (“to choose, select”). Compare also Kyrgyz шайлоо (şayloo, “to elect”), Southern Altai сайлаар (saylaar, “to remove the husk of nuts”). In the Kyrgyz cognate, note the untrivial phonetic shift and a narrowed semantic field. The Altay cognate is probably…
picked off, having been picked off, plucked off, having been plucked off; culled, having been culled · chosen, having been chosen, selected, having been selected
çekim: çoğul dēlēctūs · tamlayan dēlēctūs
köken: Perfect passive participle of dēligō (“[I] pick off; select”).