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: First attested as Middle Korean 구ᅀᅵ〮 (kwùzí) in the Nammyeongjip eonhae (南明集諺解 / 남명집언해), 下:63b, 1482. Compare dialectal 구시 (gusi), Jeju 구시 (gusi).
hair (single hair on human or animal) (not used of human head hair except in a technical sense) · hair (small, tiny amount) · colors, stripes
çekim: çoğul karvat · tamlayan karvan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *karva (compare Estonian karv, Livonian kǭra, Veps karv), borrowed from Baltic (compare Lithuanian gaũras). In the first texts, karva is attested only in the sense “color”; in its current meaning, it is first mentioned in a biblical text in 1621. Displaced in the sense “color” by väri.
trough (long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals) · channel (the physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks)
çekim: çoğul koryta · tamlayan koryta
köken: Inherited from Old Czech koryto, from Proto-Slavic *koryto. Cognate with Upper Sorbian korto, Lower Sorbian kóryto, Polish koryto, Serbo-Croatian kòrito, Russian коры́то (korýto).
hollow, cavity · hollow, deep vessel, basket, trough, tray; deep cavity, excavation · trough for feeding pigs
çekim: çoğul alveī · tamlayan alveī
köken: Etymology tree Latin alvus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin alveus From alvus (“the belly, paunch, bowels”) + -eus.