point (small mark) · point · full stop, period (punctuation mark)
çekim: çoğul points
köken: Inherited from Middle French poinct (with orthography modified to reflect the Latin etymology), from Old French point, from Latin punctum.
aile: à bon vin point d'enseigne, à méchant ouvrier, point de bon outil, à point, à point nommé, à quel point, à tel point que, au plus haut point, au point, au point de, deux points
point (all senses), jot, iota · full stop, period · instant (point in time)
çekim: çoğul punti
eş: granellino, macchiolina, macchia, segno, segno molto piccolo, oggetto molto piccolo
köken: From Latin punctum.
aile: di punto in bianco, due punti, fare il punto, in punto, punto cieco, punto dolente, punto e virgola, punto erba, punto esclamativo, punto interrogativo
köken: Old Russian and pre-Reform постъ (post), as it were Proto-Slavic *postъ, a loan from Old High German fasta (“fast”) (8th century, a feminine noun from the root of Proto-Germanic *fastāną), presumably first in this sense in Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fastan), gloss of νηστεία (nēsteía).
needle (implement for sewing) · needle (thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph) · pine needle
çekim: çoğul agulhas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese agulla, from Late Latin acūcula, a diminutive of Latin acus (“needle, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
to point to · to indicate or emphasize something. · to teach
çekim: geçmiş 가리켰다
eş: 꼽다, 이르다, 지칭하다
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᄅᆞ치〮다〮 (Yale: kòlòchítá), meaning "to point; to teach", presumably because a teacher points to what they teach. The verb split semantically after Middle Korean. Doublet of 가르치다 (gareuchida, “to teach”).
point, argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition) · argument
çekim: çoğul argumenty · tamlayan argumentu
eş: dowód
köken: Etymology tree Latin arguō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin argūmentumlbor. Polish argument Learned borrowing from Latin argūmentum.
köken: By surface analysis, acuō (“make sharp or pointed, sharpen”) + -men (noun-forming suffix), from acus (“a needle, a pin”). The linguist Douglas Q. Adams suggests that the form is comparable to Tocharian B akwam, which Adams argues could be a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-u-mn-. However, the Latin form—if inherited directly from Proto-Indo-European—would more likely derive from a term of…