köken: Inherited from Old French, from Latin pīla (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.
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: From Proto-Finnic *kasa, borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (compare Old Swedish kasi, Swedish kase (“heap, collection of something”), Old Norse kǫs (“heap, pile”)), from Proto-Germanic *kasō.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *p-ʄoːŋ ~ *ɟoːŋ. Cognate with Mlabri ɟioŋ ("father"), Khmu joŋ ("man"). This word originally just meant "man, male", as with North Central gấy/cấy (“wife”), originally just meant "woman, female". Attested in Annan Jishi (安南即事, 13th century) as 重 (MC drjowng) (modern SV: trùng). Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese chào᷃ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum…
stake (pointed long and slender piece of wood) · stack (pile of identical objects)
çekim: çoğul stácaí · tamlayan stácaí
köken: From a conflation of Middle English stake (“stake, fencepost”) (from Old English staca, from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô) and stak (“stack”) (from Old Norse stakkr, from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz). Doublet of staca (from stak) and staic (from a variant form of stake).