köken: From Middle High German gegende, equivalent to gegen + -de, which is an alteration of older gegenōte, from Old High German geginōti, probably after Old French contree, whence also English country. Compare Dutch jegenode.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Iranian *wi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwas- Proto-Iranian *Hwah- Proto-Iranian *wi-Hwah- Middle Persian gyʾg (gyāg) Persian جا Inherited from Middle Persian gyʾg (gyāg, “place”), from Proto-Iranian *wi-Hwah-, from *wi- + *Hwah- (“to dwell”).
earth · land · land; real estate or landed property
çekim: çoğul ерҙәр · tamlayan ерҙең
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yẹr (“earth; land”). Cognate with Tatar җир (cir), Kazakh жер (jer), Kyrgyz жер (jer), Southern Altai јер (ǰer), Uzbek yer, Turkish yer (“land; earth”), etc.
a position (same location/orientation duality as in English); a location, a site · a situation, a state · an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)
çekim: çoğul lägen · tamlayan läges
köken: Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
place, site · space, room, space · vacancy (e.g. for a job)
çekim: çoğul जगहें
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian جایگاه (jāygāh), جاگه (jāgah), from جا (jā), جای (jāy, “place”) + ـگاه (-gāh, “location suffix”). Cognate with Assamese জেগা (zega), Bengali জায়গা (jaẏga), Gujarati જગ્યા (jagyā), Marathi जागा (jāgā), Nepali जग्गा (jaggā), Old Deccani جاگاہ (jāgāh), Odia ଜାଗା (jāgā), Punjabi ਜਗ੍ਹਾ (jaghā). The shortening of the vowels may be due to influence from जगत् (jagat,…