a reference, person who vouches for another, character witness · a quoted or otherwise consulted, preferably reliably or authoritative source, as for writing an academic document
çekim: çoğul referenties
köken: Presumably in each sense independently derived from French référence, presumably from Old French referer (14th century), anyway from Latin referre "to relate, refer", literally "to carry back", itself from re- "back" + ferre "to carry, bring"
spring, wellhead (place where water emerges from the ground) · source, fountainhead (collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates) · source, origin (person, place or thing from which something comes or is acquired)
çekim: çoğul lähteet · tamlayan lähteen
zıt: nielu
köken: From Proto-Finnic *läktek (compare Estonian läte, Ingrian lähe, Veps lähte, Võro läteq), equivalent to lähteä (“to leave”) + -e, as in "where the water leaves the ground".
verbal noun of forr: boiling (the process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point) · spring, source (place where water emerges from the ground) · source
spring (source of water) · source (where something comes from) · reference
çekim: çoğul allikad · tamlayan allika
köken: Cognate to Finnish allikko. Possibly from a Baltic language, compare Lithuanian šaltenis (“spring”) and šaltinis (“spring, source, that which is cold”). While the expected initial h- is seen in older Estonian texts, its loss in Finnish is unexplained, possibly due to similar words starting with ala-.