köken: From Middle High German wāge, from Old High German wāga, from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu (“scales”). Cognate with Dutch waag, English wey. The spelling Waage was used alongside Wage since at least the 17th century. As the etymological school of the 19th century favoured single vowels, some doubled spellings like baar, Schooß, Waage were abolished during the reforms of the early 20th century.…
aile: Briefwaage, Personenwaage, Waagschale, Zünglein an der Waage
köken: Inherited from Middle French balance, from Old French balance, from Vulgar Latin *bilancia, from Latin bilanx, from bi- (see Latin bis) and lanx.
English or American pound avoirdupois (a unit of mass equivalent to 453.6 g) · libra, Spanish pound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 460 g) · British pound (the currency of the United Kingdom and its dependencies, originally notionally equivalent to a pound of stirling silver)
çekim: çoğul libras
eş: libra esterlina, lira
köken: From Latin libra (“Roman pound, scale”). Doublet of lira. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese libra and Catalan lliura.
scale (device to measure mass or weight) · weighing (act of determing the weight of something with such a device) · weight; pull (force an object exerts on the object it is on due to gravitation)
çekim: çoğul wagi · tamlayan wagi
eş: ciężar, masa
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti Proto-Germanic *weganą Proto-Germanic *wēgō Proto-West Germanic *wāgu Old High German waga Middle High German wāgebor. Old Polish waga Polish waga Inherited from Old Polish waga.
weight · scales (a device for weighing goods for sale) · Libra (someone with a Libra star sign)
çekim: çoğul vægte · tamlayan vægts
köken: From Old Danish wict, wæct, borrowed from Middle Low German wicht, from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz. Cognate with English weight. Swedish vikt is also borrowed from Low German.