köken: From Middle High German valle, Old High German falla, deverbal from fallen. Compare typologically Czech past, Polish zapadnia, Russian западня́ (zapadnjá) (akin to па́дать (pádatʹ), па́сть (pástʹ)).
köken: Inherited from Middle French couille, from Old French coille, from Vulgar Latin *cōlea n pl, from Latin cōleus m sg.
aile: briser les couilles, casser les couilles, couille dans le pâté, couille dans le potage, couille de mammouth, couille molle, couillu, de mes couilles, en avoir plein les couilles, entre couilles
device · construction (anything that has been constructed) · ruse, dodge, trick, catch
çekim: çoğul qurğular · tamlayan qurğunun
köken: From qur- + -ğu. The sense 'device' is likely a semantic loan from Russian устро́йство (ustrójstvo). Compare Kazakh құрылғы (qūrylğy) and Uyghur قۇرۇلما (qurulma), etc., for a similar development.
a pit trap or snare · a hole in the top of a box or other container for dropping things in · a deliberate ploy to deceive someone into a bad situation: a deliberate pitfall
köken: Compound of 落(お)とし (otoshi, “dropping, making something fall”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 落(お)とす (otosu, “to drop something, to make something fall”)) + 穴(あな) (ana, “hole”). Originally referred to a kind of trap. First attested to the early 1200s.
diminutive of hak · fishhook (barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing) · caron, háček (diacritical mark)
çekim: çoğul haczyki · tamlayan haczyka
eş: haczyk wędkarski, kruczek
köken: Etymology tree Polish hak Proto-Indo-European *-eykos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-eikas Proto-Slavic *-ikъ Old Polish -ik Polish -ik Polish -yk Polish haczyk From hak + -yk.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ansa (compare Estonian aas), borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ansā (compare Old Prussian ansis (“hook, latch”), Latvian osa), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂emseh₂ (compare Latin ānsa (“handle”)).
köken: De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related. Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).
trap, snare (a spring-loaded or drop-door device (especially for catching rodents)) · trap (a skilful manoeuvre to catch sb, to lure into an unfavourable or dangerous situation) · a situation or place from which there is no way out
çekim: çoğul lõksud · tamlayan lõksu
köken: Possibly from a sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic stem, from the sound that a trap might make.
köken: From Old Irish dul (“snare, trap”), from Proto-Celtic *dolā, from Proto-Indo-European *dol-éh₂ (“reckoning, calculation, fraud”), from the root *del- (“to reckon, calculate”), see also Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “trick(ery), deceit; bait”).