string (of a musical stringed instrument) · string (of a racquet)
çekim: çoğul Saiten · tamlayan Saiten
köken: From Middle High German seite, from Old High German seita (also seito m), from Proto-West Germanic *saidā, *saidō, from Proto-Germanic *saidô (“string, cord”). In the 17th century, the ⟨ei⟩ was changed to the homophonous ⟨ai⟩, in order to distinguish this word from Seite. Derived from Seite originally.
rope (general) · chord · chord (of a string instrument)
çekim: çoğul cordes
eş: bout, commande
köken: Inherited from Middle French corde, from Old French corde, borrowed from Latin chorda (“gut”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”).
aile: à fleur de corde, avoir plus d'une corde à son arc, cordage, corde à linge, corde à sauter, corde raide, corde vocale, cordeau, cordelet, cordelette
köken: Inherited from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”). Doublet of corda.
aile: aflojar la cuerda, bajo cuerda, contra las cuerdas, cuerda al aire, cuerda de presos, cuerda dorsal, cuerda falsa, cuerda sin fin, cuerda vale, dar cuerda
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] ((ʾ)sym /(a)sēm/, “silver”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎡𐎹𐎶𐎶 (s-i-y-m-m /siyamam/), from Ancient Greek ἄσημον (ásēmon, “silverware”), neuter form of ἄσημος (ásēmos, “pure, unmarked”). Akin to Parthian hsym (hasēm, “silver”), Bactrian σιμινο (simino, “made of silver, silverware”).
köken: From Old Japanese. Compound of 弓 (yu, “bow”) + 弦 (tsuru, “string, line”). The tsuru changes to zuru as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Probably the original reading, given the etymology of the yu and yumi readings for 弓.
çekim: karşılaştırma strengere · üstünlük strengest
köken: From Proto-Germanic *strangijaz (“tight, tense”), cf. German streng. It is variant of the adjective Proto-Germanic *strangaz, Old Norse strangr, English strong.