köken: From Middle High German lëber, lëbere, from Old High German lëbera, lëbara, from Proto-West Germanic *libru; akin to Dutch lever, English liver, Danish lever.
köken: Inherited from Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver (as food)”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesised to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.
aile: avoir les foies, foie gras, huile de foie de morue
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish figado (compare Ladino ligado), from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”).
köken: From Common Kypchak bawïr, from Proto-Turkic *bagïr (“liver”). Cognate with Old Uyghur baγarsuq (“intestines, viscera”), Turkish bağırsak (“intestine”), Old Turkic baɣïr ("liver") etc. Related to бауырсақ
liver · the seat of the soul · the seat of the passions and affections
çekim: çoğul iecinora · tamlayan iecinoris
köken: From Proto-Italic *jekʷor (oblique stem *jekʷen-), from Proto-Indo-European *Hyékʷr̥. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar), Sanskrit यकृत् (yákṛt), Persian جگر (jegar), Old Armenian լեարդ (leard). The expected inherited paradigm would be iecur ~ *iecinis, but the attestations show a regularized declension iecur ~ iecoris and a hybrid iecur ~ iecinoris. Compare femur with similar…
köken: From Old Danish liuær, from Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *librō, cognate with English liver and German Leber. The Germanic word may be an irregular remodelling of the Proto-Indo-European word for "liver", *yókʷr̥, cf. Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar) and Latin iecur.