the driver of a vehicle or of a group of animated creatures · a conductor, substance which conducts · a cue sheet
çekim: çoğul conducteurs
zıt: isolant
köken: Borrowed from Latin conductorem, from condūcō (“lead, bring or draw together”), itself from con- (“with, together”) + dūcō (“lead, guide”). Or from conduct + -eur. Cf. also Old French conduitor.
aile: conducteur du dimanche, conducteur fantôme, fil conducteur
köken: From Middle Dutch buse, of uncertain origin, plausibly representing an umlauted byform *beusju of Proto-West Germanic *beusu (“rush, bentgrass”) which gives Dutch bies. For the "television" sense, compare English tube.
whistle (device used to make a whistling sound) · a rudimentary hand cannon used in the early 15th century, especially during the Hussite Wars.
çekim: çoğul píšťaly · tamlayan píšťaly
köken: Inherited from Old Czech píščala, from Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-. Doublet of pistole.
köken: From a Slavic language; compare Proto-Slavic *cěvь, *cěva. The interjection sense has developed in modern times due to the word's phonetic similarity with csaó (“ciao”) or csá (“ciao”).
pipe, tube, especially a water pipe · hollow reed or cane · shepherd's pipe, pipes of Pan
çekim: çoğul fistulae · tamlayan fistulae
köken: Unknown. De Vaan thinks the most promising connection is with festūca (“stalk, straw”) and fistūca (“pile driver, ram”), built on a stem *festo- which may be connected to ferula (“fennel; staff”) by a root *fes- (“hollow stalk”). This makes any relationship to findō (“cleave, divide, split”) unlikely.