köken: From Middle High German lëber, lëbere, from Old High German lëbera, lëbara, from Proto-West Germanic *libru; akin to Dutch lever, English liver, Danish lever.
köken: Inherited from Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver (as food)”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesised to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.
aile: avoir les foies, foie gras, huile de foie de morue
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish figado (compare Ladino ligado), from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”).
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek συκώτιον (sukṓtion), a diminutive of the neuter of Hellenistic Koine Greek συκωτός (sukōtós) from the phrase ἧπαρ (hêpar) συκωτόν (sukōtón, “liver of an animal fatted with figs”). From the ancient σῦκον (sýkon, “fig”). Similarly, derivation from an expression, for the Latin fīcātum, from iecur ficatum.
köken: From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).
liver (a large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile) · hepatic
çekim: çoğul májak
köken: From Proto-Uralic *mëksa, by rebracketing of the possessive form mája into máj + a instead of the earlier má + ja. Cognates include Northern Mansi ма̄йт (mājt), Finnish maksa and Estonian maks.
liver · the seat of the soul · the seat of the passions and affections
çekim: çoğul iecinora · tamlayan iecinoris
köken: From Proto-Italic *jekʷor (oblique stem *jekʷen-), from Proto-Indo-European *Hyékʷr̥. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar), Sanskrit यकृत् (yákṛt), Persian جگر (jegar), Old Armenian լեարդ (leard). The expected inherited paradigm would be iecur ~ *iecinis, but the attestations show a regularized declension iecur ~ iecoris and a hybrid iecur ~ iecinoris. Compare femur with similar…
liver (internal organ of humans and animals, gland that produces bile) · this organ of an animal, used as food
çekim: çoğul aknu · tamlayan aknu
köken: From Proto-Baltic *yeknā-, *yaknā-, from the genitive form *yekʷ-né-s of Proto-Indo-European *Hyékʷr̥ (“liver”), an old, n/r-alternating stem. Cognates include Lithuanian jẽknos, dialectal ãknos, Old Prussian lagno (apparently a misspelled iagno), Sanskrit यकृत् (yakṛt) (genitive यक्नः (yaknáḥ)) Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar) (genitive ἧπατος (hêpatos)), Latin iecur.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *maksa, from Proto-Uralic *mëksa. Cognate with Finnish maksa, Komi-Permyak мус (mus), Northern Mansi ма̄йт (mājt), Hungarian máj and Tundra Nenets мыд (mid).
Enamus vähki tekitavaid mürke töödeldakse neerudes ja maksas.
köken: From Proto-Southwestern Tai *tapᴰ (“liver”), from Proto-Tai *tapᴰ (“liver”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨲᩢ᩠ᨷ, Lao ຕັບ (tap), Lü ᦶᦎᧇ (ṫaeb) or ᦎᧇ (ṫab), Tai Nüa ᥖᥙᥴ (táp), Shan တပ်း (táp), Aiton တ︀ပ︀် (tap), Tai Dam ꪔꪚꪾ or ꪔꪾꪚ, Zhuang daep, Saek ตั๊บ.
köken: Inherited from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”) (compare Occitan fetge, French foie, Spanish hígado), ellipsis of Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”). First attested in 1288.