köken: Etymology tree Latin crēta French craie Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Frankishinflu. Old French -on Middle French -on French -on French crayon From craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), derived from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”).
aile: affile-crayon, aiguise-crayon, avoir de la mine dans le crayon, chacot à crayon, crayolor, crayon à bille, crayon à mine, crayon à papier, crayon aquarellable, crayon de bois
köken: Borrowed from Latin lapis (“stone”), whence also English lapidary and lapis lazuli). Alternatively through Italian lapis; compare Portuguese lápis. Doublet of lápida.
aile: falda lápiz, lapicera, lapicero, lápiz cortasangre, lápiz de cera, lápiz de color, lápiz de labios, lápiz de memoria, lápiz de ojos, lápiz de plomo
köken: From pot (“pot”) + lood (“lead”). Originally it was a name for graphite, used for glazing pots, which was misidentified as a form of lead. Compare English black lead.
καλαμένιο όργανο γραφής, με το οποία παλαιότερα έγραφαν πάνω στην πλάκα οι μικροί μαθητές. Ως γραφίδα χρησιμοποιούσαν ένα κομμάτι καλάμι κομμένο από έναν κόνδυλο (δηλ. κόμπο) σε άλλο.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *olovo Old Polish ołów Polish ołów Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Old Polish -ek Polish -ek Polish ołówek From ołów + -ek. Compare the semantic development of English black lead (“graphite”).
köken: Traditionally connected to Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”); however, this is repudiated by Beekes, who instead connects the Latin term to Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom (“lead”). De Vaan accepts this cognate pairing, but notes that the Latin and Celtic terms would have to be borrowed from a substrate language due to phonetic mismatches if the Latin were inherited directly from…
köken: Borrowed from English pencil or Dutch penseel, from Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”).