Korean/Words/oak

oak edit

The oak tree is not a tree of oak but of acorn, otherwise than the chestnut tree. Thus what oak means at all matters after all.

Tree	Fruit
English oak tree Dutch eikenboom German Eichenbaum	English acorn Dutch eikel German Eichel
Faroese eikitræ Icelandic eikitré Danish egetræ Norwegian eiketre Swedish ekträd	Faroese akarn also eikinøt Icelandic akarn Danish agern Norwegian eikenøtt also åkorn Swedish ekollon
Estonian tamm ^[1]	Estonian tammetõru ^[2]
Chinese 橡樹 (xiàngshù) Japanese 柏 (kashiwa, カシワ) Korean 참나무 (chamnamu)	Chinese 橡子 (xiàngzǐ) Japanese 団栗 (donguri) ^[3] Korean 도토리 (dotori)

↑ Cf. Korean chamnamu below.
↑ From : tamm "oak" +‎ tõru "acorn". Compare: Korean cham "oak" + dotori "acorn"
↑ lit. "round chestnut". cf. Korean 도토밤 (dotobam) lit. "thick chestnut"