köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (hndʾck' /handāzag/, “measure, manner”), from the verb [script needed] (hndʾhtn' /handāxtan/, “to plan, allot, reckon, judge”). Related to انداختن (andâxtan, “to throw”); see there for more.
köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
a mountain rising above the tree line (in the Nordic countries)
çekim: çoğul fjälls · tamlayan fjälls
köken: From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.
scale, keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals, particularly fish or reptiles · plaque (symptom of psoriasis) · case, casing, the outer part of an ammunition cartridge
çekim: çoğul łuski · tamlayan łuski
eş: łupina, gilza
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *luska Polish łuska Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luska.
scale (small plates of keratin on the skin of fish and certain reptiles) · scale (overlapping layers in a pinecone) · dandruff (small pieces of skin in the hair)
çekim: çoğul skællene · tamlayan skæls
köken: From Old Norse skel f (“shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, cognate with Norwegian skjell, English shell, Dutch schil, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 (skalja, “tile”).