large haystack kept in storage, often with a pole through its centre
çekim: çoğul almiares
eş: niara, parva
köken: Coromines and Pascual consider it to reflect the ellipsis of an unattested Late Latin (pertica) mediālis (“pole that goes in the middle of a haystack to hold it together”), with the meaning subsequently transferred to the haystack itself. Compare Portuguese almeara, almeada, and almiare (“outdoor hay-shed”), found in Castilian-influenced dialects. They take the Spanish variant ameal, found in…
köken: Possibly formed as a diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-mós (“heap”), from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”) + *-mós. Cognates from this root include Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă, “swell, wave”), Lithuanian saunas (“firm, fit, solid, capable”), and Sanskrit श्वयति (śvayati, “swell”). However, Schrijver thinks the evidence for deriving cumulus from *ḱewh₁- is weak. Proto-Indo-European *-uH- usually became…
köken: From Proto-Vietic *p-ʄoːŋ ~ *ɟoːŋ. Cognate with Mlabri ɟioŋ ("father"), Khmu joŋ ("man"). This word originally just meant "man, male", as with North Central gấy/cấy (“wife”), originally just meant "woman, female". Attested in Annan Jishi (安南即事, 13th century) as 重 (MC drjowng) (modern SV: trùng). Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese chào᷃ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum…