köken: From Middle High German elefant, elfant, relatinisation of helfant, from Old High German helfant, from Proto-West Germanic *elpand (“elephant, ivory”).
elephant (large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea) · male elephant
çekim: çoğul éléphants
köken: Inherited from Middle French elephant, from Old French elefant, a borrowing from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας, ἐλέφαντος (eléphas, eléphantos). The commoner Old French form was olifan(t), whence the modern doublet olifant (“ivory horn”).
aile: avoir des oreilles d'éléphant, défense d'éléphant, éléphant blanc, éléphant d'Afrique, éléphant d'Asie, éléphant de mer, fort comme un éléphant, mémoire d'éléphant, oreille d'éléphant, pattes d'éléphant
bishop (an overseer of congregations) · bishop (a game piece)
çekim: çoğul bispos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese bispo, inherited from Latin episcopus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos). Doublet of epíscopo. Compare Sicilian viscu.
köken: From Old Swedish hvat, hvadh, from Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Closely related to German was and English what and cognates in other languages in the branch of Germanic languages. Other IE cognates are Latin qui, quae, quod and the derived words of its successors in the family of Romance languages.
calf (young bovine) · calf (young of certain other mammals such as some cervids, cetaceans, pinnipeds, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippopotami, camels) · a slow-witted person; a dimwit; a dolt
çekim: çoğul cielęta · tamlayan cielęcia
eş: cielak, cielaczek, reg. śl. cielok, fajtłapa
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *telę̀ Old Polish cielę Polish cielę Inherited from Old Polish cielę.
calf (young cow or bull) · calf (the young of another large mammal, such as a deer, roe, bison, giraffe, elephant, whale, seal, hippopotamus, etc.) · synonym of borjúhús (“veal”, the flesh of a calf [i.e. a young bovine] used for food)
çekim: çoğul borjúk
köken: Borrowed from Oghur before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu. Compare Chuvash пӑру (păru, “calf”), Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (b¹uzǧu /buzaɣu/), Ottoman Turkish بوزاغو (buzağı, “calf”). The word can also be found in the Mongolic languages. The form that arrived in the Hungarian language was probably *buraɣu.
köken: Via Latin elephantus from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās); replaced Old Danish fil (“elephant”), Old Norse fíll (cf. older Danish filsben (“ivory”)).