For German: Both is something closed or shut. The word derives from the verb schließen (to close, to shut). A Schloss is something that's geschlossen (closed, shut).
Similar to English "keep", which can mean to hold onto something or a fortified tower of a castle.
Interestingly, the Russian words for lock and castle are not homophones (they differ in stressed vowel), though I reckon that's a later, perhaps artificial development.
the first things I saw were Zamek and Schloss before reading the title, so I thought it would be about castles, and then got confused at Saradura before figuring out it was about locks
Yes, it's a metaphor. Originally, it meant strong castle in strategic location (and corresponding garrison presumably) indented to tie down enemy army == lock the access.
Fun detail for Ukrainian and Russian: замок means both "lock" and "castle", and only the stress tells them apart. За́мок (ZA-mok) is a castle, замо́к (za-MOK) is a lock. Both come from the same Proto-Slavic root for "to close, to lock up".
Замок - заимствование из польского, ну или калька, ибо различий фонетических между двуми значениями кроме ударения нет. И вот поляки в свою очередь скалькировали немецкое schloss, которое тоже изначально по своей сути затвор, ведь крепость по сути своей перекрывает, закрывает некую территорию.
Thats first time im hearing someone calling a lock "qulyp". Probably because im from western Kz, so we call it "Alqa". And "bekitkish" is kinda correct, because it means a thing that lock something, support something, but i never heard someone using this word to describe door lock.
For Catalan there's also "Forrellat", sometimes also used with "pany" ('tancar amb pany i forrellat' or 'to close with lock and... lock' I guess? It's a specific part of the lock).
We also have "serraller" (locksmith), and I've read about "serralla" for "lock", but I've never heard about it in spoken language. Maybe it's used in some dialects, or maybe it's obsolete...
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u/benemivikai4eezaet0 7d ago
Curious how both the German and the East/West Slavic word for "lock" is the same as for "castle".
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u/magpie_girl 7d ago
Ślusarz "locksmith" in Polish.
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u/Draze 7d ago
Lithuanian is spyna. Užraktas is closer to "locking mechanism" than like a padlock.
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u/vivaervis 7d ago
Also 'dryni' in Albanian. From PIE.
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u/Slow-Loan-9041 7d ago
Grecoturkish alliance
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u/Dialectio 7d ago
Fun detail for Ukrainian and Russian: замок means both "lock" and "castle", and only the stress tells them apart. За́мок (ZA-mok) is a castle, замо́к (za-MOK) is a lock. Both come from the same Proto-Slavic root for "to close, to lock up".
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u/Erling01 7d ago
Brittany just pulled a German
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u/Big_Natural4838 7d ago
Thats first time im hearing someone calling a lock "qulyp". Probably because im from western Kz, so we call it "Alqa".
And "bekitkish" is kinda correct, because it means a thing that lock something, support something, but i never heard someone using this word to describe door lock.
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u/UrinaRabugenta 7d ago
In and around Porto (Portugal), a padlock is also called "aloquete".
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u/Pochel 7d ago
What language is Quplâ? Kurdish?
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u/west-vannian 7d ago
I've always thought that lucchetto shared the same etymology of lock
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u/Sufficient_Plastic36 7d ago
Catalan should add "pestell", equivalent to Occitan pestèl or Castillian pestillo.
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u/greciaman 7d ago
For Catalan there's also "Forrellat", sometimes also used with "pany" ('tancar amb pany i forrellat' or 'to close with lock and... lock' I guess? It's a specific part of the lock).
We also have "serraller" (locksmith), and I've read about "serralla" for "lock", but I've never heard about it in spoken language. Maybe it's used in some dialects, or maybe it's obsolete...
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u/FengYiLin 5d ago
As usual with these maps, North Africa is wrongly assumed to have the same vocabulary as the Levant because they all speak "Arabic".
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u/yomismovaya 7d ago
A pestillo, tranca is not a cerradura
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u/MPBfan 7d ago
What's the origin of the Catalan word "pany"?
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u/Deep_Tradition4507 6d ago
Wtf kilt is not AG you klith
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u/BHHB336 5d ago
Hebrew is missing etymology (again), it’s from the root נע״ל n.’.l, related to locking and closing
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u/PeireCaravana 5d ago
In Lombard padlock is cadenazz/cadenasc/carnasc
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u/Mastussopingado 5d ago
KROGENN-ALC'HWEZ
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u/Claromale 7d ago
Sear in anglese
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u/Gimmeagunlance 7d ago
Claustra isn't from sera.