köken: Inherited from Old French conoissance, from Late Latin cognōscentia, from Latin cognōscēns.
aile: à ma connaissance, à sa connaissance, avoir connaissance, en connaissance de cause, faire connaissance, faire la connaissance, perdre connaissance, prendre connaissance, reconnaissance, reprendre connaissance
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾšnwʾk' /āšnāg/, “known”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Note also Old Persian [script needed] (ašnaiy, “near”). Possibly akin to Old Armenian Աշնակ (Ašnak, a male given name). Related to شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know, to be acquainted with”).
köken: From the verb tanï- "to know, be familiar with" (compare Old Turkic [script needed] (tanï-, “know, be familiar”), from Proto-Turkic *tanu- (“to know”). Cognate with Bashkir таныш (tanış), Kyrgyz тааныш (taanış), Uzbek tanish (“known, acquainted”), Turkish tanış, etc.
çekim: karşılaştırma mer bekant · üstünlük mest bekant
köken: Borrowed from German bekannt (“known, acquainted”), from Middle High German bekant, past participle of bekennen (“to know; to make known”). The verb also developed the sense “to confess” in German, which was separately loaned into Swedish as bekänna. Here the Swedish past participle is bekänd (“confessed”).
köken: Etymology tree Polish znajomy Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀ Proto-Slavic *-a Old Polish -a Polish -a Polish znajoma From znajomy + -a.
köken: Either a loan from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver, “friend, boyfriend”), or a blend of kamraati + toveri. The former of these is now considered more likely. The word is also attested in the sense “companion (in crime)”, so it may have originated in argot.