tussock (a strong, thick mat of bog plants growing in dense clumps, often rising up to a meter high from the bog) · clump (a grassy mound or hill protruding here and there from a marshy, waterlogged flat) · a molehill overgrown with grass (in meadows and pastures)
çekim: çoğul zsombékok
köken: Internal origin, probably a derivation. For morphological and phonological reasons the ending seems to be the noun-forming suffix -ék. Compare fazék, hajlék. The base word is extremely uncertain. It was perhaps the archaic zsomb (“marshy, swampy area”). From a semantic point of view, the explanation seems good, but it has significant chronological difficulties. A direct derivation from German or…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese toutiço (“back of the head”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
köken: From Old Norse þúfa, from Proto-Germanic *þūbaz; cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk tue, Swedish tuva, Faroese túgva, English tuft. May come from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-.