köken: From Middle High German dunst, tunst, from Old High German tunst, from Proto-Germanic *dunstą (“haze, mist, dust, evaporation”). Related to English dust. The onset d- is already predominant in Middle High German, thus due to irregular re-voicing. The expected form tunst disappears in early modern German under the reinforcing influence of Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dūst,…
thumb, the innermost finger · inch · pintle (jointed pivot of a hinge, consisting of the pin and the non-moving leaf)
çekim: çoğul duimen
köken: From Middle Dutch dume, from Old Dutch *thūmo, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô. Compare West Frisian tomme, Low German Dumen, German Daumen, English thumb, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nevoa, from Latin nebula, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Compare Galician néboa and Spanish niebla. Doublet of nébula.
mist, haze; a thin fog · indefinite genitive singular of di
çekim: tamlayan disets
eş: dimslöja
köken: From Low German dis (“haze”), of West Germanic origin (compare Dutch dijs (“mist, fog”), West Frisian diish), of uncertain origin; possibly from Middle Low German dûnster, from Old Saxon *thinstar, from Proto-West Germanic *þimstr (“dusky, dark”). If so, related to modern Dutch deemster (“twilight”).
uncia, a coin of the Roman Republic equal to 1/12 as · inch, a length unit, equal to 1/12 of one foot · An insignificantly small length
çekim: çoğul ū̆nciae · tamlayan ū̆nciae
köken: Building upon Varro, most modern Latinists derive this word from ūnicus (“unique”) + -ia, itself from ūnus (“one”) (from Proto-Indo-European *óynos) in the sense of twelfths making up the base unit of various ancient systems of measurement. Following Heron of Alexandria, Weiss instead postulates a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀγκία (onkía, “uncia”), from ὄγκος (ónkos, “weight”); he considers the…
inch (a unit of length equal to one-twelfth of a foot, in Denmark 2.62 cm until 1907; in English-speaking countries 2.54 cm)
çekim: çoğul tommer · tamlayan tommes
köken: From Old Danish thumæ, Old Norse *þumi, from Proto-Germanic *þumô, *þūmô (“thumb”). Cognate with Swedish tumme (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), and English thumb. As a measurements, it is originally equal to the width of a thumb. An old diminutive of this word is found in Danish tommel, tommelfinger (“thumb”), Old Norse þumalfingr (*þumalaz) and English thimble (*þūmilaz).