köken: From Middle High German īwe, from Old High German īwa, from Proto-West Germanic *īwā, īhwā, *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īwō, *īhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with dated Dutch ijf, English yew, Lithuanian ievà, Russian ива (iva). Middle High German postvocalic -w- was normally lost. It has been preserved in ewig, Löwe, and with secondary hardening to -b- in Eibe and Hieb.
Support de forme triangulaire dont l’assemblage imite un if taillé en pyramide.
çekim: çoğul ifs
köken: Inherited from Middle French if, from Old French if, from northern Vulgar Latin *ivus (“yew tree”), from either Proto-Celtic *iwos or Proto-Germanic *īhwaz, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with Breton ivin, Welsh ywen, Old Irish eó (in Celtic), English yew, Dutch ijf, German Low German Iev, German Eibe (in Germanic), and further with Russian ива (iva) etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch *îwe f (attested as uwe and ieve, the latter being a conflation with the unrelated word for “ivy”), from Old Dutch *īwa, from Proto-Germanic *īwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with German Eibe, English yew.
yew tree (Taxus baccata, literally: “yew spruce”). · strip, withy, or wattle of willow (vide) or sallow (sälg), respectively willow or sallow bush
çekim: çoğul idegranar · tamlayan idegrans
köken: Compound of ide (“yew”) + gran (“spruce”), from Old Swedish idhe, yew, from Old Norse *iði, from *iðja (“greenery”, literally “yew + collective suffix”), from an earlier *īṷiþia, from Proto-Germanic *īwiþia, *īhwiþia, a collective form of *īhwaz (“yew”) + *-iþia (“collective suffix”). Compare Swedish vide (“willow”), vidja (“withy, wattle”).
A yew (tree). · A javelin made of the wood of the yew tree.
çekim: çoğul taxī · tamlayan taxī
köken: A loanword of Scythian origin, from Proto-Iranian *taxša, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to flee, run”), as the fruit was considered poisonous. Also compare modern Persian تخش (taxš, “crossbow”).