thorn (with plural Dornen or Dörner) · clipping of (with plural Dorne) Dornbusch (“thornbush”) · bolt (with plural Dorne)
çekim: çoğul Dornen · tamlayan Dornes
köken: From Middle High German dorn, from Old High German dorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þornu, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Low German Doorn; Durn (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch); Däörn (Münsterländisch), Dutch doorn, English thorn, Danish torn, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus).
aile: dornenartig, dornig, dornlos
Ein Kaktus hat keine Stacheln, sondern Dornen, während eine Rose keine Dornen, sondern Stacheln hat.
ear, spike, fruiting body of a grain plant · arrowhead
çekim: çoğul башаҡтар · tamlayan башаҡтың
köken: From *bašaq (“ear of a cereal plant”), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head”). Cognates Cognate with Kazakh масақ (masaq), Southern Altai мажак (mažak), Uzbek bоshоq, Turkish başak, Khakas пазах (pazax, “ear of a cereal plant”), etc.
top, peak, summit · climax, culmination, apex, vertex · one of the best in their field
çekim: çoğul huiput · tamlayan huipun
köken: Probably from hui (“spool”), like dialectal huitti, huittu "peak, top". The -pp- may be from suippo, suippu. A sound-symbolic blend is possible.
point, tip (of a pointed object) · spit (for cooking) · sting (of an insect etc.)
çekim: çoğul cuspidēs · tamlayan cuspidis
köken: Unknown origin. Possibly from an earlier *kuri-spid-, a compound of curis (“alternative form of quiris (“spear”)”) + a Proto-Italic noun *spis (“lance”); the latter would be from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”), and related to Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina). However, dvandva compounds are quite abnormal within Latin, in addition to curis possibly being from the same unknown…
köken: From Malay hujung, ujung, from Classical Malay هوجوڠ (hujung), اوجوڠ (ujung), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzuŋ (“mountain peak, cape of land; tip of anything”), *ujuŋ (“nose”).