köken: Univerbation of grano + turco, itself a calque of New Latin frumentum turcicum. Literally, “Turkish corn”, coined by European botanists of the 1530s who were unaware that the plant was introduced from America.
köken: A wanderword of Balkan origin. Probably entered Russian from Ukrainian кукуру́(д)за (kukurú(d)za), Serbo-Croatian куку̀руз, or Romanian cucuruz - see there for further history.
to sew with large stitches · to give to the fire; to throw into the ashes · to be tedious for somebody, to appear as a source of vexation to, to tire, to weary
millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food)
eş: pluimgierst, gele gierst, goudgierst
köken: From Middle Dutch heerse, from Proto-Germanic *hirsijô, potentially derived in turn from an unknown substrate language or, alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“feed, nourish”). Cognate with Limburgish hirs, Old Saxon hirsi, Plautdietsch Hieezh, Old High German hirsi (German Hirse), Alemannic German Hirse.
köken: Likely from 강남 (gangnam, “Jiangnan”, itself a Sino-Korean word from 江南, from 江 (“[Yangtze] River”) + 南 (“south”)) + -앙이 (-ang'i, diminutive suffix).
maize, corn (any plant of the genus Zea) · maize, corn (grain of Zea mays) · corncob (central cylindrical core of an ear of maize on which the kernels are attached in rows)
çekim: çoğul kukurydze · tamlayan kukurydzy
eş: złoto Ameryki
köken: A Balkan wanderword, perhaps borrowed from Ukrainian кукуру́дза (kukurúdza), Serbo-Croatian kukuruz, or Romanian cucuruz. The penultimate vowel in the modern form is likely from influence of -yca. Compare Czech kukuřice.
millet (any of a group of various grasses whose grains are used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world) · millet (the grains of these grasses) · panicgrass (grass of the genus Panicum, some of which are used as millet)
çekim: çoğul hirssit · tamlayan hirssin
eş: viljahirssi
köken: Borrowed from Swedish hirs, from German Hirse.
köken: Attested in Karel Thám's Deutsch-böhmisches National-lexikon (1788), in actual usage at least since 1798. A wanderword, either from German Kukuruz, Hungarian kukorica or Slovak kukurica, in turn probably from Serbo-Croatian kukuruz or Romanian cucuruz (see there for further etymology). The ending of the modern form is probably due to paronymic attraction to common suffix -ice.
aile: kukuřičník
Dario Freddi — Dario Freddi
Opogný nápog také milugi, z kukuřice, kterau ženy zwikagi, a s slinámi do nádoby mecý, dělagi.
maize, corn · corncob · pine cone or cone of another conifer
çekim: çoğul cucuruzi · tamlayan cucuruzului
köken: Attested 1575 as Cucurezi, the name of a village (today Cucuruzu, Giurgiu County), as Cucuruz from 1621. As maize (cucurudz, triticum turcicum) in Dictionarium Valachico-Latinum (Caransebeș, c. 1650). From Latin cucullus "hood, doll, cocoon" via a Balkan word – Aromanian cucul, Albanian kukull – with rhotacism l > r and suffix -uz (originally -ëz). The reference is to the wrapped, cocoon-like…