köken: From Middle High German armbrust (12th century, variants armbrost, armborst, armbrast, armbst), from Medieval Latin arbalista, from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”) + ballista (“ancient military engine for hurling missiles”) (compare English arbalest); modified, possibly by folk etymology, but as Grimm notes, the German noun was neuter well into the early modern period which…
aile: Armbrustschütze
Zu den Waffen, die nicht allen Teutschen Völkern gemein, sondern nur gewissen Stämmen derselben eigenthümlich waren, gehörte die Armbrust.
köken: From Old Danish arnbyrst, from Old Norse armbrist, arbyst, from Middle Low German armborst, from Medieval Latin arbalista, from Late Latin arcuballista. Compare German Armbrust and Swedish armborst.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *s-naːʔ (“crossbow”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *snaʔ (“crossbow”). Cognate with Thavung ซะน่า, Khmer ស្នា (snaa), Koho söna. Doublet of nỏ. Pain (2020) tentatively considered this to be a Chinese loan, from 弩 (OC *C.nˤaʔ) (B-S) (SV: nỗ), into Austroasiatic and Tai languages, likely through proto-Vietic.
köken: Uncertain, cognate to Czech kuše, Polish kusza. Possibly borrowed from Old Czech kušě (“a dog with severed tail”), from Proto-Slavic *kǫsъ (“truncated”) + *-ja.