twin (male or female; the feminine form Zwillingin is rare)
çekim: çoğul Zwillinge · tamlayan Zwillinges
eş: Gemini
köken: From Middle High German zwillinc, zwinelinc, from Old High German zwiniling from an original *twiniling, from Proto-Germanic *twinilingaz, from *twinaz + *-lingaz. By surface analysis, zwie- + -ling. Compare Dutch tweeling, English twinling, Danish tvilling. More at twin.
köken: Inherited from Old French jumel, gemel (cf. also the less often used French dialectal form gémeau, as well as Gémeaux), from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus. Compare Italian gemello, Portuguese gémeo, Romanian geamăn, Spanish gemelo.
köken: From Proto-Common Turkic *ẹkiz, from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)iŕ, ultimately a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i (“two”). Cognates include Chuvash йӗкӗреш (jĕk̬ĕreš).
köken: From *egizäk (“twin”), from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)iŕ (“twin”), from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i (“two”). Cognate with Tatar игезәк (igezäk), Uzbek egizak, Uyghur ئېگىزەك (ëgizek, “twin”).
a pair of twins; said of people and other mammals · each of two twin siblings · a vegetal or object equivalent, e.g. an identical fruit pair
çekim: çoğul tweelingen
köken: From Middle Dutch twiling, twilling, tweiling, from Old Dutch *twinling, possibly from Proto-Germanic *twinilingaz, with the first element from *twinaz (compare German Zwilling, English twinling, Danish tvilling). By surface analysis, twee (“two”) + -ling.
twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus at the same time, or of two similar or closely related objects) · Gemini (star sign)
çekim: çoğul tvillingar · tamlayan tvillings
köken: From Old Swedish tvinlinger, possibly from an Old Norse root *tvinlingr, from Proto-Germanic *twinilingaz, with the first element from *twinaz. Compare Norwegian and Danish tvilling, English twinling, Dutch tweeling, German Zwilling.
köken: Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). By the 18th century it was almost obsolete, but the language reformers successfully reintroduced it nationally. Compare Chuvash йӗкӗр (jĕk̬ĕr, “twin”), Mongolian ихэр (ixer), Turkish ikiz.