köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic щитъ (ščitŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ščitъ (“shield”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skeita, from Proto-Indo-European *skey-to-m, from *skey- (“to cut, separate”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian štit, Old Irish scíath, Latin scūtum.
köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
carapace (dorsal part of a turtle's shell) · shell (external covering of crustaceans) · shell (exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects)
çekim: çoğul carapaças
eş: frústula
köken: Etymology tree substrateder.? Spanish carapachobor. French carapacebor. Portuguese carapaça Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho.
a mountain rising above the tree line (in the Nordic countries)
çekim: çoğul fjälls · tamlayan fjälls
köken: From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.
shield (broad piece of defensive armor) · escutcheon (the shield on which a coat of arms is displayed) · shield (large, flat expanse)
çekim: çoğul kilvet · tamlayan kilven
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kilpi (compare Estonian kilp, Livonian kiļb, more distantly also Northern Sami galba), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hlībō (compare Old Norse hlíf).
scale (small plates of keratin on the skin of fish and certain reptiles) · scale (overlapping layers in a pinecone) · dandruff (small pieces of skin in the hair)
çekim: çoğul skællene · tamlayan skæls
köken: From Old Norse skel f (“shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, cognate with Norwegian skjell, English shell, Dutch schil, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 (skalja, “tile”).
aile: fiskeskæl, skælle, skælshampoo
Etimoloji
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siksik (“scale of fish, lizard or snake; shell of turtle or tortoise”). Cognate with Malagasy sisika and Fijian cici.