ear (of corn) · head, ear (of a grass seed) · spike (of a flower)
çekim: çoğul Ähren · tamlayan Ähren
köken: From Middle High German eher, äher n, from Old High German ehir, ahir, ahar n, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz n. The form with Ä- is Upper German, where -h- led to an open vowel through secondary (rather than primary) umlaut. The feminine form, in turn, is a chiefly Central German backformation from plural use. Cognate with Dutch aar, West Frisian ier, English ear. Ultimately derived from…
aile: Ährenfeld, Ährenkranz, Ährenspindel, Scheinähre, Zahl oder Ähre
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (hwšk' /hōšag/, “ear of corn, cluster; the star Spica, the constellation Virgo”), borrowed into Old Armenian խոշակ (xošak) and into Arabic حُوشَاكِيّ (ḥūšākiyy, “two-grained wheat”). Note also the mushroom-name غوشْنَه (ġōšna), غوشَنَه (ġōšana) passed into Arabic غَوْشَنَة (ḡawšana, “morel”). Probably from Proto-Iranian *Hawšaka-, a derivative of…
ear, spike, fruiting body of a grain plant · arrowhead
çekim: çoğul башаҡтар · tamlayan башаҡтың
köken: From *bašaq (“ear of a cereal plant”), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head”). Cognates Cognate with Kazakh масақ (masaq), Southern Altai мажак (mažak), Uzbek bоshоq, Turkish başak, Khakas пазах (pazax, “ear of a cereal plant”), etc.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arar, from Latin arāre, from Proto-Italic *araō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h₂erh₃-.
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᆯ다〮 (Yale: kòl-tá), probably from pre-MK *; see Appendix:Koreanic reconstructions#/l/ and /ɾ/ merger. Manchu ᡥᠠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ (halambi, “to change, to replace”) is probably borrowed from Koreanic in ancient times.
köken: From a Slavic language; compare Proto-Slavic *cěvь, *cěva. The interjection sense has developed in modern times due to the word's phonetic similarity with csaó (“ciao”) or csá (“ciao”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós Proto-Italic *agʷnos Latin agnus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin agna From agnus (“lamb”) + -a (feminine suffix).
köken: From Proto-Vietic *poːŋ (“flower”). Cognate with Muong pông and Thavung โปง. Outside of Vietic, compare Proto-Pearic *Pa(ː)ŋ (Headley, 1985), Proto-Katuic *ʔmpɔɔŋ (“banana blossom”), Kensiu həpuaŋ, Ten'edn hapɔŋ. This word had been tentatively proposed as being connected etymologically with Hmong-Mien (Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ, whence Iu Mien biangh, White Hmong paj) or Austronesian…