custom (duty collected at the borders) · customs (authority collecting that duty) · toll (sacrifice or victims associated with a decision or condition)
köken: From Middle High German and Old High German zol, from Proto-Germanic *tullō (“what is counted or told”), for which see Proto-West Germanic *tolnu (“toll”) for more. Cognate with English toll.
English or American inch (a unit of length equal to 2.54 cm) · pulgada, Spanish inch (a former unit of length equivalent to about 2.3 cm)
çekim: çoğul pulgadas
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, unit of length derived from Latin pollex (“thumb”). Compare Galician pulgada (which may be borrowed from Spanish) or Portuguese polegada. As an English unit, a calque of English inch.
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.
American or English inch, a unit of length equal to 2.54 cm · polegada, Portuguese inch, a historical unit of length about equal to 2.8 cm · square polegada, a historical unit of area about equal to 7.8 cm²
çekim: çoğul polegadas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese polegada, from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, unit of length derived from Latin pollex (“thumb”). Compare Galician and Spanish pulgada. As an English unit, a calque of English inch.
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).