köken: By surface analysis, гвоздь (gvozdʹ, “nail”) + -и́ка (-íka). Inherited from Old East Slavic гвозника (gvoznika), гвоздьника (gvozdĭnika) (both forms used interchangeably in A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, circa 1466–1472). Vasmer and Chernykh believe that the Russian term is ultimately a calque of Polish goździk, gwoździk (or rather from their Old Polish antecedent), which in turn was a semantic…
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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حسن یوسف (hüsn-i yusuf). By surface analysis, hüsn (“beauty”) + -i (ezafe suffix) + Yusuf (“Joseph”).