köken: Of unknown origin. Possibly from Picard bidoule, berdoule (“mud”). First attested in 1940 as military slang for a mess (in the sense of a dirty or disordered thing).
köken: From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).
distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon · that one we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) · third-person personal pronoun: he, she, that person
köken: From older kare → are. Compound of あ (a, “that, yon”) + れ (-re, nominalizing suffix for demonstratives).
köken: Of uncertain origin. Commonly analysed as descending from dialectal 그슥 (geuseuk) or 거슥 (geoseuk), which has been explained as formed by analogy with the Middle Korean interrogative pronoun 므슥 “what” plus the suffix -이 (-i). In Modern Korean, 거시기 functions as an indefinite pronoun and as a discourse marker used when the speaker cannot, does not remember, or does not wish to name something directly.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic тъ (tŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”), with similar words across Indo-European branches, albeit with various phonetic difficulties. Compare Welsh troeth (“urine”), Hittite [script needed] (ištar(k)-, “to ail, afflict”), Lithuanian ter̃šti (“to soil”), as well as Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”).