nautical traffic sign or buoy · a kind of road sign(s), used in Germany e.g. at level crossings
çekim: çoğul Baken · tamlayan Baken
köken: 17th century, from Middle Low German bāke, from Old Frisian bāken, from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Cognate with Dutch baak, English beacon.
köken: From Middle Dutch baken, from Old Frisian bāken. Displaced Middle Dutch boken, from Old Dutch *bōkan. Both forms originate from Proto-Germanic *baukną.
landmark (recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation) · seamark (elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners) · earth sign
top of a conical structure, heap or mountain · top or crown of the head · top or highest point of any standing object or structure
çekim: çoğul crutos
köken: Attested since the 12th century, in Latin charters. Probably from a substrate language; compare Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round object”): Welsh crwth (“hump, hunch”). Compare Portuguese coruto and Asturian corollu.
köken: From Old Norse varða, from Proto-Germanic *warþō, an extension of a stem-verb *warōną (“be on guard”). See also Old High German warta (“watch”), Old Saxon warda, Middle Dutch warde.