köken: From Vulgar Latin *nuceola, from nuceus (“of nuts”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Ligurian nisêua, Sicilian nuzzola, Venetan noxeła, Romansh nitschola, and also French noisette.
hazel tree · Corylus heterophylla, the Asian hazelnut, in particular
köken: First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), c. 1460, as Middle Korean 개욤나모 (Yale: kayyom-namwo). By surface analysis, 개암 (gaeam, “hazelnut”) + 나무 (namu, “tree”).
köken: Together with Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”) from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos if not a Proto-Italic borrowing from Celtic or Germanic before the First Germanic Sound Shift or a substrate. The presence of the “y” letter may be a reworking of the original corulus variant through a phenomenon in which the Romans had the tendency to Grecize words for poetic reasons.…
aile: colurnus, corylētum
Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos / spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.
From Ottoman Turkish فندق (funduq, “hazelnut”) + -ici, from Persian فندق (fandoq), from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq), from Middle Persian pndk', from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon, “Pontic nut”), from the hazelnut's indigenousness and abundance in the area of Pontus. Compare funduc.