burkāns

Etymology
The word is first mentioned in Latvian in 17th-century dictionaries. It is a heavily word spread around Baltic Sea, up to 🇨🇬,  and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, , the immediate sources of which are unknown but are sought in any of the neighbouring Indo-European languages. Possible scenarios:
 * It is a borrowing from Baltic, from , itself
 * from, + a diminutive suffix -ken, -kan (cf. the Old Frisian reduced form ). But it is dubious that the diminutive suffix would get a long vowel and even become stressed. In turn it is tempting to assume in this constellation that the German is from Latvian. One needs to ask why this word has prominence only in the extreme fringes of the German and Russian language areas respectively.
 * from Burgundian rule over the Netherlands, hence the word would just reflected the country name Burgundy. This is backed by the observation of the carrot plant’s spread in the Late Middle Ages from the Mediterranean over Middle Europe to Northeast Europe. But the transmitting forms of Low German and Dutch dialects are in question.
 * It is from a, with reflexes in 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 on the one hand and 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 on the other.
 * It is from a non-Indo-European language which had an alternation that explains the anlaut variation between the voiced bilabial plosive and the voiced bilabial nasal of the aforementioned words. 🇨🇬 is a random correspondence if not remotely related via the source language of this word.
 * The Baltic words are possibly from a non-Indo-European language and German and Russian derive from Latvian. 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 are random correspondences, possibly from an unrelated substrate.

Noun

 * 1) carrot a plant with a large edible root, often orange in colour, esp.
 * 2) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable
 * 1) carrot the edible root of that plant, often orange in colour and used as a vegetable