key (object that opens and closes a lock) · key (object that is inserted into a device and rotated to activate it) · any of several tools designed to turn screws, bolts, nuts, etc., especially a spanner
çekim: çoğul chaves
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese chave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”), from Proto-Italic *klāwis (“bolt, lock, bar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) (possibly through an Ancient Greek intermediate). Doublet of clave, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Galician chave, Spanish llave, Catalan and Occitan clau, French clé,…
aile: a sete chaves, cabeça de chave, chavão, chavaria, chave de boca, chave de braço, chave de cadeia, chave de fenda, chave de fendas, chave de grifo
key (an object that goes into the keyhole and as it turns left or right it locks or unlocks a door, drawer, etc.) · wrench · keystone (a central wedge-shaped piece of an arch or dome that locks the other pieces in place)
çekim: çoğul κλειδιά · tamlayan κλειδιού
köken: From Byzantine Greek κλειδίν (kleidín), from Ancient Greek κλειδίον (kleidíon), diminutive of κλείς (kleís), from Proto-Hellenic *klāwī́ds, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”).
köken: First attested in the Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong eonhae (妙法蓮華經諺解 / 묘법연화경언해), 1463, as Middle Korean 엸〯쇠〮 (Yale: yěl-s-swóy). From 열— (yeol-, “to open”) + 쇠 (soe, “metal”). The phonological resemblance to Chinese 鑰匙 (yàoshi, “key”) is coincidental.
a proof (any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth)
çekim: çoğul bevisen · tamlayan bevisets
köken: From Old Swedish bevis, likely borrowed from Middle Low German bewis. However, the Swedish term is attested from 1501, whereas the earliest known attestation of the Low German term is from 1575. Compare Danish bevis, Dutch bewijs, German Beweis.
proof, piece of evidence (that which evinces the realness of something) · evidence (anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial) · evidentiary proceedings
çekim: çoğul dowody · tamlayan dowodu
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Balto-Slavic *da Proto-Slavic *do Proto-Slavic *do- Old Polish do- Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- Proto-Balto-Slavic *wádīˀtei Proto-Slavic *vodìti Old Polish wodzić Old Polish dowodzićdeverb. Old Polish dowód Polish dowód Inherited from Old Polish dowód. By surface analysis, deverbal from dowodzić. Compare Kashubian dowód.
köken: From Proto-Slavic *kľučь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kljaukjas, from Proto-Indo-European *klewk-yo-s, from *kle(h₂)uk-, an extended form of *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, key, peg”).
köken: Borrowed from Punjabi ਕੁੰਜੀ (kuñjī) / کُنجی (kunjī), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀼𑀁𑀘𑀺𑀬𑀸 (kuṃciyā), from Sanskrit कुञ्चिका (kuñcikā). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from English key.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech kľúč, From Proto-Slavic *kľučь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kljaukjas, from Proto-Indo-European *klewk-yo-s, from *kle(h₂)uk-, an extended form of *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, key, peg”).