to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
çekim: geçmiş betoverden · ortaç betoverd · şimdiki betovert · ulaç betoverend
köken: From Middle Dutch *bitôveren, from Old Dutch *bitōvaron, from Proto-West Germanic *bitaubrōn. Equivalent to be- + toveren. Cognate with German bezaubern.
to charm, to beguile, to enchant, to enthrall, to captivate, to enrapture · to win over · to charm oneself, to beguile oneself, to enchant oneself, to enthrall oneself, to captivate oneself, to enrapture oneself
çekim: geçmiş oczarowano
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab Proto-Slavic *o(b) Proto-Slavic *o(b)- Old Polish o- Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- Proto-Balto-Slavic *ker-, *kēr- Proto-Slavic *čarъ Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Proto-Slavic *čarovati Old Polish czarować Old Polish oczarować Polish oczarować Inherited from Old Polish oczarować, from o- + czarować. By…
to soothe or appease (a crying or tantrum-throwing baby)
köken: The phonetic elements in the Nôm characters used to write this word (杜 (MC duX), 徒 (MC du)) as well as the modern North Central form thỗ/thổ point to earlier form with *-d-. This word is unrelated to 誘 (MC yuwX) (SV: dụ), although the character appeared in latter Nôm texts as sound changes in the mainstream dialects caused the two to become similar enough for 誘 to be used as a phonetic element.