couple, pair · married or in romantic liaison, or acting together (of people) · yoke (ie a pair of animals tied together for ploughing)
çekim: çoğul ζευγάρια · tamlayan ζευγαριού
eş: ζεύγος
köken: From Byzantine Greek ζευγάρι (zeugári), ζευγάριν (zeugárin), from ζευγάριον (zeugárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek ζεῦγος (zeûgos). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, tie together”).
köken: Back-formation from まぐわい (maguwai), treating it as a 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “verb stem or continuative form”). The second component in まぐわい (maguwai) may be from 合(あ)ひ (ahi), modern 合(あ)い (ai), 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 合(あ)う (au).
pair, couple (two similar or identical things) · couple, pair (two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship) · partner (someone with whom one does something, e.g. with whom one dances in a two-person dance)
çekim: çoğul parit · tamlayan parin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin pār (whence also English pair, Spanish par). * (par (in finance)): Likely a semantic loan from Italian pari.
köken: Unclear. A traditional reconstruction is Proto-Indo-European *perh₂- (“to exchange, sell”), comparing Ancient Greek πέρνημι (pérnēmi) etc. and Lithuanian pirkti; but this accounts badly for the /a(ː)/. De Vaan suggests *peh₂s- (“to watch (over), see?”), linking Latin pāreō. All possibilities nonetheless suffer semantic problems. Others refrain from assigning an Indo-European root. If Umbrian pars…