end, extremity, tip (of a physical object) · bit, piece, scrap · rope
çekim: çoğul bouts
eş: extrémité, fin
köken: From Middle French, from Old French bout (“a blow”), derivative of bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. More at bouter.
aile: à bout, à bout de, à bout portant, à tout bout de champ, au bout de, au bout du fil, avec des bouts de ficelle, bon bout, bout à bout, bout de doigt
ear, spike, fruiting body of a grain plant · arrowhead
çekim: çoğul башаҡтар · tamlayan башаҡтың
köken: From *bašaq (“ear of a cereal plant”), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head”). Cognates Cognate with Kazakh масақ (masaq), Southern Altai мажак (mažak), Uzbek bоshоq, Turkish başak, Khakas пазах (pazax, “ear of a cereal plant”), etc.
tip, point (the sharp end of a conical object) · top (the uppermost part of a tree, or of a tower tapering to a point) · peak, summit (the top of a hill, mountain or range, ending in a point)
çekim: çoğul csúcsok
köken: Uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćuća (“point, peak”), in which case related to Erzya цёцяня (ćoćańa).
point, tip (of a pointed object) · spit (for cooking) · sting (of an insect etc.)
çekim: çoğul cuspidēs · tamlayan cuspidis
köken: Unknown origin. Possibly from an earlier *kuri-spid-, a compound of curis (“alternative form of quiris (“spear”)”) + a Proto-Italic noun *spis (“lance”); the latter would be from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”), and related to Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina). However, dvandva compounds are quite abnormal within Latin, in addition to curis possibly being from the same unknown…
köken: From Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją, cognate with Norwegian egg, Swedish ägg, German Ei (English egg is a loan from Old Norse). The Germanic noun derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), cf Latin ōvum, Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión), and Polish jajo.
köken: From Malay hujung, ujung, from Classical Malay هوجوڠ (hujung), اوجوڠ (ujung), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzuŋ (“mountain peak, cape of land; tip of anything”), *ujuŋ (“nose”).