a diminutive of the female given name Βασιλική (Vasilikí) · a diminutive of the female given name Παρασκευή (Paraskeví) · a diminutive of the female given name Σταυρούλα (Stavroúla)
köken: Calque of Danish frimærke. Compound of fri (“free”) + märke (“mark”). Meaning that it marked the letter as free to receive; as formerly it was the receiver who paid for postage. First attested in 1853.
seal (common language term for smaller pinnipeds; used mainly of earless or true seals but sometimes also covering the eared seals) · earless seal, true seal (any seal of the family Phocidae)
çekim: çoğul hylkeet · tamlayan hylkeen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hülgeh (see it for more details). Cognate with Estonian hüljes.
köken: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē)bor. Latin phōca Borrowed from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
saepe vēnātī phōcae ad escam.
nunc ibi dēfōrmēs pōnunt sua corpora phōcae
Etimoloji
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum. Doublet of sigilo, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Galician selo and Spanish sello.