köken: Inherited from Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-. Cognate with German Low German Dack, Yiddish דאַך (dakh), Dutch dak, Afrikaans dak, English thack, thatch, Danish tag, Norwegian Bokmål tak, Norwegian Nynorsk tak, Swedish tak, Polish stóg, Belarusian стог (stoh), Ukrainian стіг…
köken: From Old French eslinge (“slingshot”), from Frankish *slinga, from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk (“to turn, twist”).
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese telhado (“roof”), from Vulgar Latin *teglātu, from Latin tēgulātum, from tēgula (“a roof-tile”). Compare Galician tellado, Spanish tejado, Catalan teulada.
roof (top of a building or other object one can enter)
köken: First attested in the Gugeupbang eonhae (救急方諺解 / 구급방언해), 1466, as Middle Korean 집웋 (Yale: cipwuh), equivalent to Middle Korean 집 (cip, “house”) + 웋 (wuh, “top”) (> Modern Korean 위 (wi, “top”). The modern Korean form does not derive directly from the Middle Korean form but from a different reflex of Old Korean 上只 (*WUk), in which */k/ was nasalized instead of being lenited to /h/. The original /k/…
köken: Inherited from Sanskrit *छत्ति (*chatti, “covering, roof”), from the root छद् (chad, “to cover”) + -ति (-ti). Displaced Old Hindi छात (chāta), from the same Sanskrit source.