çekim: geçmiş craint · ortaç craint · şimdiki craint · ulaç craignant
eş: avoir peur, redouter
köken: Inherited from Middle French, from Old French criembre, criendre (later creindre), from Classical Latin tremere, from Proto-Indo-European *trem- (“to tremble”). Altered into a regional Gallo-Romance Vulgar Latin form *cremere, with the initial c- under the influence of the Celtic root *krit- (Breton kridien, Scottish Gaelic crith), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Compare the similar…
aile: chat échaudé craint l'eau froide, ne craindre ni Dieu ni diable
to have respect for, revere, stand in awe · to be afraid, fear; dread
çekim: ortaç veritus · şimdiki verētur · ulaç verēns
köken: From Proto-Italic *werēōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, heed, notice”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὁράω (horáō, “see”) < ϝοράω (woráō), and English aware and wary.
The contemporary form since the 19th century from Low German bibbern, probably already Middle Low German *bibberen, a frequentative of bēven (from Old Saxon bibōn, bivon), from Proto-West Germanic *bibēn, cognate of modern German beben. Compare Dutch bibberen (1700), English biver. In spite of the late attestations, these informal verbs might be rather old in view of the etymologically regular…