köken: Inherited from Middle French clef, from Old French clef, from Latin clāvis, from Proto-Italic *klāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w-. According to Bescherelle, the spelling clé had replaced clef by 1845.
aile: à clé, à la clé, clé à cliquet, clé à douille, clé à molette, clé anglaise, clé de bras, clé de contact, clé de lecture, clé de voûte
Et s'il me prend l'envie d' m'en aller, enferme-moi et jette la clé.
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: 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”).
a key · ellipsis of clāvis trochī, an instrument in the form of a key, by which a top was set in motion · a lever or bar for tightening a screw press
çekim: çoğul clāvēs · tamlayan clāvis
köken: From Proto-Italic *klāwis, itself a i-stem derivation of the Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) which gave also Latin clāvus (“nail”), an inherited Indo-European word originally denoting an instrument for unlocking doors.
köken: From Old Danish nykil, cognate with Swedish nyckel and Norwegian nøkkel, possibly identical to the following word. Alternatively, it is a younger form, with dissimilation, of Old Danish lykil (cf. also Jutlandic løgel), from Old Norse lykill, derived from the verb lúka (“to close, lock”), from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną.
lock, something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination · an object designed to open and close a lock · a crucial step or requirement
çekim: çoğul kunci-kunci
köken: Inherited from Malay kunci (“key”), from Hindi कुंजी (kuñjī, “key”), from Punjabi ਕੁੰਜੀ (kuñjī) / کُنجی (kunjī), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀼𑀁𑀘𑀺𑀬𑀸 (kuṃciyā), from Sanskrit कुञ्चिका (kuñcikā). * Semantic loan from Dutch sleutel for wrench, spanner and clef senses. * Semantic loan from Dutch akkoord for chord sense. * Semantic loan from English key for music (other than clef sense), education, computing,…