köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mozgъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *masgás (“marrow; brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós. Cognate with Polish mózg, Serbo-Croatian мозак (mozak), Persian مغز (maġz), Dutch merg, English marrow.
köken: From Byzantine Greek μυαλόν (mualón), from alteration of earlier μυαλός (mualós), from Koine Greek μυαλός (mualós), from Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós).
head (part of the body) · head (individual person in relation to a group) · head (person in intellectual terms)
çekim: çoğul głowy · tamlayan głowy
eş: łeb, łepetyna, czerep, bańka, dynia, makówka
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gelH-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ Proto-Slavic *golvà Old Polish głowa Polish głowa Inherited from Old Polish głowa. Doublet of hołowa, a form borrowed from East Slavic.
brain (organ) · brains, grey matter (ability to think)
çekim: çoğul aivojen · tamlayan aivojen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aivo (compare Estonian aju (“brain, mind”)), from Proto-Uralic *ajŋe (compare Hungarian agy (“brain”) and possibly Moksha уй (uj, “brain”)).
intellect, brains, mind, reason, judgment, intelligence, sanity, remembrance (the content of one's head in a figurative sense)
çekim: çoğul eszek
köken: First attested in 1372. From a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *es. Compare Chuvash ас (as).
Unknown. Possibilities include: * A misinterpretation of talinong having the -ng suffix. Compare Sambali talino. * From Spanish talento, according to Lopez (1965). Compare tina and Spanish tinta.