köken: From Middle High German petschat, petschaft with ending under influence of Schaft – hence also having acquired any of three genders –, from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *pečatь.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Italic *seknom Latin signum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lum Latin sigillum Old French seel Middle French sceau French sceau Inherited from Middle French sceau, Old French seel (whence also English seal), from Latin sigillum. The spelling with ⟨sc⟩ was introduced in Middle…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese selar, from Latin sigillāre. Compare Spanish sellar, Catalan segellar, French sceller, Italian suggellare. Cf. also the borrowed doublet sigilar.
a seal (a design usually representing some person or organization, an impression of that design on a document or other object with a stamp (in lacquer or wax or similar material), and a stamp bearing such a design)
çekim: çoğul sigills · tamlayan sigills
köken: Attested since 1460–1461 as Old Swedish sighel, sägel (in the compounds sighla vax, sägelvax, referring to sealing wax), ultimately from Latin sigillum (see there for more). Compare Danish sigil, segl (including older forms such as segel, sigel), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌻𐌾𐍉 (sigljō), Middle Low German segel, seggel, Middle Dutch seghel (modern zegel), Old Frisian sigel, Middle High German sigel (modern German…