köken: From Middle High German bat, from Old High German bad, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą. Related to bähen.
aile: Bad Aibling, Bad Arolsen, Bad Belzig, Bad Bentheim, Bad Bergzabern, Bad Berka, Bad Berleburg, Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge, Bad Bevensen, Bad Bibra
pond (small lake, often shallow) · lagoon (especially on the Mediterranean coast)
çekim: çoğul étangs
eş: lac
köken: Derived from the Old French verb estanchier, through an earlier form estanc. Unrelated to Latin stāgnum (“pond”), which influenced the change in spelling from ⟨c⟩ to ⟨g⟩.
Étang de Thau
Voyez, près des étangs, / ces grands roseaux mouillés / Voyez, ces oiseaux blancs / et ces maisons rouillées
a closed body of water, e.g. a lagoon · reservoir (natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply) · glacial basin (a broad and relatively shallow depression caused by glaciation)
çekim: çoğul altaat · tamlayan altaan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aldas (compare Karelian allaš (“trough”)), derived from a root borrowed from Proto-Germanic *aldǭ (“trough”) (whence e.g. Norwegian olda and separately also aalto). The ending has probably been modified to -as by analogy with other Germanic loans (such as valas).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kaluža, related to *kalъ (“dirt”). Cognate with Polish kałuża and Serbo-Croatian kaljuža. First attested in the 19th century.
köken: It is generally agreed to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-H- (“to burn bright, gleam; white, pale”), but there is disagreement whether the word is one of the earliest Romanian loans from Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp”), or whether it is a substrate word. Possibly borrowed from Albanian baltë (“mud”) or its immediate Proto-Albanian/Illyrian ancestor. Cognate with Aromanian baltã, Italian palta…