köken: Etymology tree ▲ Middle High German sloȥsl. Czech zámekbor. Polish zamekbor. Russian замок Borrowed from Polish zamek, which is a calque via Czech zámek of Middle High German sloz (“lock, keep”), which, in turn, is a calque of Latin clūsa (“lock, fort, fortification”). Attested from the 17th century. Related to замыкать (zamykatʹ) (замкну́ть (zamknútʹ)). But note also Old Novgorodian ꙁамъке…
bunch (of fruits) · lock (length of hair) · raceme (an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis)
çekim: çoğul cachos
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *caplum, from Latin capulum (“handle”), from capiō (“to take”) + -ulum (instrument-forming suffix). Doublet of cabo. Compare Spanish cacha.
köken: First attested in the Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong eonhae (妙法蓮華經諺解 / 묘법연화경언해), 1463, as Middle Korean ᄌᆞᄆᆞᆳ쇠〮 (Yale: còmòl-s-swóy). From ᄌᆞᄆᆞ— (como-, “to close, to shut”) (> 잠그— (jamgeu-)) + -ㄹ (-l) + 쇠 (swoy, “metal”).
lock, something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination · an object designed to open and close a lock · a crucial step or requirement
çekim: çoğul kunci-kunci
köken: Inherited from Malay kunci (“key”), from Hindi कुंजी (kuñjī, “key”), from Punjabi ਕੁੰਜੀ (kuñjī) / کُنجی (kunjī), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀼𑀁𑀘𑀺𑀬𑀸 (kuṃciyā), from Sanskrit कुञ्चिका (kuñcikā). * Semantic loan from Dutch sleutel for wrench, spanner and clef senses. * Semantic loan from Dutch akkoord for chord sense. * Semantic loan from English key for music (other than clef sense), education, computing,…
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كلید (ḱilid), from Persian کلید (kelid), from Middle Persian *kilēd, from Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís), from Proto-Hellenic *klāwī́ds, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u-.