a male given name, feminine equivalent Oda, Odilia, Ottilie, Uta, or Ute; variant form Udo
köken: Short form of Old High German compound names beginning with the element ōt (“riches”), such as Ottokar and Otmar, from Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“treasure”). Name of a 10th century German emperor.
köken: Inherited from Middle French chose, from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
aile: à peu de choses près, autre chose, avant toutes choses, c'est la moindre des choses, chose du passé, chose jugée, chose promise, chose due, chose-bine, chosifier, chosisme
köken: Learned borrowing from Katharevousa ἀποχωρητήριον (apochoritírion) (first attested in 1888), from the past stem αποχωρη- (apochori-) of αποχωρώ (apochoró, “to withdraw, pull out”) + -τήριο (-tírio, “place suffix”).
köken: From an earlier нуждникъ (nuždnik), formed via нужда (need) or нужда́я се (nuždája se, “to need”) + -ник (-nik). Literally, "needful, wanted place". In Bulgarian the word нужда is still used in two colloquial expression: малка нужда meaning urination and голяма нужда meaning defecation.