köken: The contemporary form is shortened from Geleise, from Middle High German geleis (“track”), cognate with Middle High German leise, from Old High German leisa, from Proto-Germanic *laisǭ (“track, trail”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-eh₂-, from *leys- (“to trace, track”).
rail (the metal bar that makes the track for a railroad)
çekim: çoğul carris
köken: From carro + -il, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *carrīlis, as an alteration of Late Latin currīlis, from Latin currus, with influence from carrus.
bar (long piece of metal) · rail (metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad)
çekim: çoğul kiskot · tamlayan kiskon
köken: kiskoa (“to tug, pull”) + -o. Probably originally meant "long, thin piece of birchbark", whence later applied to metal and then to rails (as they are long, narrow pieces of metal).
köken: From Middle Low German schene (“little plate”) or from German Schiene (“rail, splint”), from Old Saxon or Old High German skina, all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skinu (“track, bar”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti Proto-Italic *regō Latin regō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom Latin -ula Latin rēgulader. Old English regolder. ▲ Latin rēgulader. Old French reilleder. Middle English rail English railder. ▲ English railbor. French railder. Esperanto relo From English and French rail.
From Proto-Tai *rwɯəŋᴬ (“gutter; trough”). In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Lao ຮາງ (hāng), Shan ႁၢင်း (háang), Ahom 𑜍𑜂𑜫 (raṅ). In Northern Tai, possibly cognate with Zhuang luengq (“gap”) or Zhuang luengx (“ditch between ridges”).