köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (hwšk' /hōšag/, “ear of corn, cluster; the star Spica, the constellation Virgo”), borrowed into Old Armenian խոշակ (xošak) and into Arabic حُوشَاكِيّ (ḥūšākiyy, “two-grained wheat”). Note also the mushroom-name غوشْنَه (ġōšna), غوشَنَه (ġōšana) passed into Arabic غَوْشَنَة (ḡawšana, “morel”). Probably from Proto-Iranian *Hawšaka-, a derivative of…
köken: From Old Swedish kærve, from Old Norse kerfi, kjarf, likely from Proto-Germanic *kerbą, a derivation of Proto-Germanic *krebô (“basket, bucket”). Related to karva, korv, karm. Compare Middle Dutch kerven, German kerben, Old English ceorfan. Cognate with Icelandic kerfi (“system”), Faroese kervi (“sheaf of sedge, system”).
inflorescence (cluster of flowers arranged on a stem) · a cluster (fruits arranged in the manner of an inflorescence) · bunch of grapes
çekim: çoğul ciorchini · tamlayan ciorchinelui
köken: Unknown. There are several etymologies proposed, and no single one can be said to be far ahead of the others in terms of getting majority preference yet. Pușcariu and Densușianu proposed a derivation from a Vulgar Latin root *circ[u]lina, from Latin circulus, with an Italian dialectal word as the main evidence, a word which referred to "inflorescence of walnut trees and oak trees" and which…