echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer)
eş: 에코, 산명, 산울림
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 뫼〯ᅀᅡ리〮 (Yale: mwǒyzàlí), etymologically equivalent to modern 메 살— (me sal-, “to live in the mountains”) + -이 (-i, agentive noun-deriving suffix), but never perceived as such by modern speakers.
köken: From Old Swedish ēkia (Old Norse eikja). Original meaning: “boat carved out of the trunk of an oak”. Derived from an old word for “oak” (from which Swedish ek (“oak”)). See also Old English āc (“oaken ship”).
echo (reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer) · echo (reactions to phenomena and events that occurred earlier) · echo (news that spreads fast)
çekim: çoğul echa · tamlayan echa
köken: Etymology tree Old Polish echo Polish echo Inherited from Old Polish echo.
aile: echo odpowiada, echo odpowiedziało, nie odpowiadać za siebie
echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer)
çekim: çoğul visszhangok
köken: From vissz- (“back”) + hang (“sound”). Calque of German Widerhall (“echo”). The prefix is not attested as an independent word, it was shortened from vissza. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. First attested in 1777.