köken: Inherited from Middle French balle, from northern Italian balla. Doublet of balle (“bundle”).
aile: à deux balles, à fond de balle, balle de break, balle de match, balle de plastique, balle de set, balle rapide, balle rebondissante, hockey-balle, renvoyer la balle
köken: From Parthian 𐫤𐫇𐫟𐫖 (twxm /tōxm/, “seed, line, race”), from Proto-Iranian *táwxma (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬊𐬑𐬨𐬀𐬥- (taoxman-, “seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (“germ, seed, sprout, offspring”). Compare Old Armenian տոհմ (tohm), an Iranian borrowing.
egg (spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development) · egg (of a hen, used as food) · egg (anything shaped like an egg)
çekim: çoğul αβγά · tamlayan αβγού
köken: Back-formation from the plural αβγά (avgá), itself extracted from ταβγά (tavgá, “the eggs”), a regular phonological development of Ancient Greek τά ᾠά (tá ōiá): :τά ᾠά /ta.oˈa/ → *τα ωγά /ta.oˈɣa/ → [tawγá] /tau̯ˈɣa/ → ταβγά /tavˈɣa/. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm via Proto-Hellenic *ōyyón.
an egg (approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals housing the embryo during its development) · egg (the contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs used as a food) · an egg (something resembling an egg)
çekim: çoğul äggs · tamlayan äggs
köken: From Old Swedish æg, from Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.