rocket, missile · firework · a type of ice cream in the shape of a rocket
çekim: çoğul raketten
eş: vuurpijl
köken: Borrowed from German Rakete, from Italian rocchetta, from rochetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), of Germanic origin, perhaps Gothic rukka, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)),…
missile, guided missile (self-propelled projectile that can have its trajectory altered during flight)
çekim: çoğul ohjukset · tamlayan ohjuksen
köken: ohjata (“to steer, guide”) + -us; a neologism formed similarly to ohjaus, with influence from ammus (“projectile”). Coined by Finnish engineering officer (colonel) Niilo Siltamaa in 1956.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech střěla, from Proto-Slavic *strěla, from Proto-Indo-European *strel-, *strēl-, from *ster- (“line, streak, stripe; jet, spurt; beam”).