to wrap, wind around, coil · to swaddle (a baby) · to change its nappy
çekim: geçmiş wickelte · ortaç gewickelt · şimdiki wickelt · ulaç wickelnd
köken: From Middle High German wickeln (“to wind, wrap around”), denominative of wickel, from Old High German wickilī (“fibres wound around the distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”). Related to modern Wickel (“anything wrapped, especially a cloth around a poultice”). The Old High German noun is a diminutive of wiohha (“bundle of fibres, wick”),…
diaper; nappy (an absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent) · foot of a mountain or hill · the part of a shirt below the waist
çekim: çoğul fraldas
zıt: cume, topo
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese *faldra, from Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽 (falþan), from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”). Doublet of falda.
diaper (US), nappy (UK), napkin (South Africa) (absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent) · mantle, cloak, robe (piece of clothing) · tunic (any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane)
çekim: çoğul vaipat · tamlayan vaipan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *vaippa (compare Estonian vaip, Votic vaippa (Kattila)), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waipaz (compare Old Norse veipa (“a kind of piece of clothing”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍀𐍃 (waips, “crown, wreath”)).
nappy, diaper (an absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent.)
çekim: çoğul scutece · tamlayan scutecului
köken: Unknown. Possibly from Slavic *skutъ, or from Vulgar Latin *scuticum, from Latin scutica (“a leather lash, whip”) (itself borrowed from Ancient Greek σκύτος (skútos)), and probably confused with derivatives of cutis (“leather”) (compare cutica). Therefore, the meaning could have changed from a leather belt to that of fabric or cloth in general. Cognate to Aromanian scutic. Cf. also Albanian skutë…