arrow (missile) · arrow (sign) · mouse cursor (informally even when not in the form of an arrow)
çekim: çoğul Pfeile · tamlayan Pfeiles
eş: Flitz
köken: From Middle High German pfīl, from Old High German pfīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“javelin, throwing spear”). Cognate with German Low German Piel, Dutch pijl (“arrow, dart”), English pile (“column of wood, steel or concrete”).
arrow (projectile or symbol) · spire · pointer, needle
çekim: çoğul flèches
köken: Inherited from Middle French fleche, from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.
aile: faire flèche de tout bois, flèche du Parthe, flèche faîtière, flécher, fléchette
köken: From Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (oq, “arrow”); Kazakh оқ (oq), Kyrgyz ок (ok), Southern Altai ок (ok), Uzbek oʻq, Uyghur ئوق (oq), Azerbaijani ox, Turkish and Turkmen ok, etc.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 화살〮 (Yale: hwàsál). Equivalent to 활 (hwal, “bow”) + 살 (sal, “arrow”).
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from German vierzig (“forty”). Alternatively, from now obsolete firc (“prince”) + -yk, from Fürst, or from fertig (“ready”). Compare fertyczny. First attested in the 1656-1688.