köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
a chore, small job · something insignificant · a minor problem, something that went wrong
çekim: çoğul akkefietjes
eş: akkevietje
köken: First attested in the 1830s. Apparently a diminutive in -je or -tje. The first part might be borrowed from West Frisian akkefyt (“chore”), but the further origin is uncertain. The usual explanation connects it with Latin aqua vitae (“liquor, especially spice-flavored”); compare Norwegian akevitt, German Aquavit etc. However, the semantic development remains open to conjecture. An alternative…
According to Max Vasmer, comes from деру́, драть (dratʹ). Compare typologically дребеде́нь (drebedénʹ), чепуха́ (čepuxá). Compare otherwise also Polish bzdura.