thickish lump · dumpling · fatso; overweight person
çekim: çoğul Klöße · tamlayan Kloßes
eş: Klops, Knödel
köken: From Old High German klōz, from Proto-Germanic *klautaz, ablaut form of Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *glūdos. Related to Middle Low German klōt, Dutch kloot, Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”) (whence Danish klud), English clout, dialectal Russian глуда (gluda). Doublet of Cloud. More at English cleat.
köken: Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French bille (“small ball”), from Medieval Latin billia, from Frankish *bikkil (“ossicle, a die, talus”). Cognate with Dutch bikkel (“dibs, die”), West Frisian bikkel (“die”), German Bickel (“marble”).
aile: bille en tête, roulement à billes, stylo à bille, toucher sa bille
köken: Of Iranic origin; perhaps entered standard Persian as a dialectal form or from another Iranian language. Compare Classical Persian دیده (dīda, “iris, eye”), Middle Persian tytk' (*tīdag, “pupil”), and Baluchi تیلگ (tilag, “eye”).
a scrap, remnant of shattering · damage, harm, wreckage, pieces (as a consequence of an accident) · a lump, chunk, piece
çekim: çoğul brokken
eş: brokstuk, fragment, klont, kluit, homp
köken: From Middle Dutch broc (“broken-off piece”), also attested as plural brocken. Probably from a merger of two interrelated nouns, both belonging to the root of breken (“to break”): * Old Dutch *broc, from Proto-Germanic *brukaz, cognate with Old High German broh, Old English (ge)broc; * Old Dutch *brocko, from Proto-Germanic *brukkô, cognate with Old High German brocko (modern German Brocken). The…
marble (small ball used in games) · glass bead, pearl, precious gem
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 區戌 (Yale: *kwùsúl). In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 구슬〮 (Yale: kwùsúl). Related to, and possibly a suffixed form of, an element found in two ancient place name glosses from the Samguk Sagi: pseudo-Goguryeo 古斯 (*kwos(V)), apparently meaning “jade; precious…
clod (lump of earth) · land, soil · lump, mass of stuff
çekim: çoğul glaebae · tamlayan glaebae
köken: Traditionally considered somehow derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel- (“to form into a ball; ball”) and thereby cognate with globus, glomus, Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), Proto-West Germanic *klott (“clod”) and others, but the precise derivations of this form and its cognates are all uncertain. Alternatively (or additionally) related to Lithuanian glė́bti (“to…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin metior Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin mēnsusnom. Latin mēnsader. Romanian masăbor. Bulgarian маса Borrowed from Romanian masă.