Chair, tissus muqueux qui est autour des dents et dans laquelle celles-ci sont comme enchâssées.
çekim: çoğul gencives
köken: Inherited from Old French [Term?] (compare 11th-century Judeo-French jencives, 12th-century Walloon genchives), from Latin gingīva (with dissimilation of the second -g-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁-.
köken: First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum eonhae (訓民正音諺解本 / 훈민정음언해본), 1446, as Middle Korean 닛므윰 (Yale: nismuyum). Equivalent to 이 (i, “tooth”) + -ㅅ- (-s-, genitive case) + 몸 (mom, an unknown element, not 몸 (mom, “body, flesh”)).
Inherited from Old East Slavic комидь (komidĭ), from Byzantine Greek κομμίδιον (kommídion), ultimately from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”); compare English gum.