casing, case, housing, shell (frame or box around something) · ellipsis of Kerngehäuse (“core of an apple, pear, etc.”) · ellipsis of Torgehäuse (“post and crossbar of a goal”)
çekim: çoğul Gehäusen · tamlayan Gehäuses
köken: From Late Middle High German gehiuse, geheus (15th c.), collective of Middle High German hūs (“house”).
carcass (dead animal) · carcass; skeleton; bones (of a plan) · an assembly of pieces of wood, metal or another substance making up the framework of a construction
çekim: çoğul carcasses
köken: Unknown. Perhaps related to Old French charcois.
skeleton (bones of an organism) · skeleton (undead) · a very thin person
çekim: çoğul esqueletos
eş: cavername, corpo-seco, ossada
zıt: gordo, baleia, rolha de poço, hipopótamo, obeso
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, to dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skele- (“to parch, to wither”).
shell ((hard) external covering of an animal, egg, nut, various objects, etc. – used similarly to English) · peel, skin (outer layer or cover of a fruit or vegetable) · a hard case (especially for a mobile phone, tablet computer, or the like)
çekim: çoğul skals · tamlayan skals
köken: From Old Swedish skal, from Old Norse skel, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”). Compare Danish skæl, Dutch schaal, Dutch schil, English shale, English shell, German Schale, Norwegian skjell.
skeleton (the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals)
çekim: çoğul kostry · tamlayan kostry
eş: kostlivec
köken: Coined by Jan Svatopluk Presl in the 19th century. Králik explains the word as a coinage modeled on other Slavic languages, where formally similar terms occur but with different meanings (cf. Russian костёр (kostjór), костра (kostra), Polish kostra), which are derived from Proto-Slavic *kostra, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kostь (“bone”). Both Králik and Rejzek additionally connect the formation…
cover, wrapper, wrapping, covering (something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection) · sheath (the insulating outer cover of an electrical cable) · pavement (road), tile (wall, floor) (a solid material that covers another surface)
çekim: çoğul burkolatok
köken: From burkol + -at (noun-forming suffix), from burok + -ol (verb-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.