backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck (a backwards, boring rural town or village)
çekim: çoğul Käffer · tamlayan Kaffs
eş: Nest
köken: 19th century, from Romani gav (“village”), from Sanskrit ग्राम (grāma, “village”). Probably influenced by Rotwelsch kefar, from Hebrew כְּפָר (kfar, “village”); perhaps also by etymology 2 in the sense of “something worthless”. The now common plural in -er probably after Dörfer.
to make fun of, to tease, to kid · to resist · to be irresolute
çekim: geçmiş からかった
köken: Attested in The Tale of the Heike (c. 1330). The kara portion is likely cognate with 絡む (karamu, “to become entangled; start a fight with, to pick a quarrel”), 絡める (karameru, “to entangle, to entwine”), and 絡げる (karageru, “to tie together in a sheave or bunch; to hitch up the hem of a robe or skirt”); with an apparent underlying meaning of entanglement, bunch. The kau portion may be 交う (kau, “to…
köken: From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *aganą (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
aile: skilja agnarna från vetet, skingras som agnar för vinden
husk (of a grain); (in the plural) chaff (inedible parts of a plant whose seeds are eaten as grain).
çekim: çoğul akanat · tamlayan akanan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *akana (compare Estonian agan, Livonian agānd, Votic akanõ), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *aganō (“chaff”) (compare Swedish agn). Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552).
aile: erottaa jyvät akanoista
Akanoiden erottamiseksi varhaisissa kulttuureissa heitettiin viljaa ilmaan ja annettiin tuulen puhaltaa pois kevyemmät akanat.
a needle, a pin · bodkin · alternative form of acus (“bran”)
çekim: çoğul acūs · tamlayan acūs
köken: The NIL suggests that the term was directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱus (“pointed”), from the root *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). However, De Vaan argues that the noun acus was a later formation from the same root. Though, De Vaan does suggest that this same Proto-Indo-European u-stem is the source of acūpedius and acuō (“sharpen, whet”).
bran: the broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain
çekim: çoğul dedak-dedak
köken: Inherited from Malay dedak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəkdək (“pulverize, crush by pounding”) (compare Maguindanao dedek, Tagalog darak (“bran”) or Proto-Mon-Khmer *lʔək (“rice-bran”).