to restrain, curb, temper, moderate (to control or keep in check) · to rein in, check, bridle (to stop or slow something, by exercising control) · to obtund (to reduce the edge or effects of)
çekim: geçmiş hillinnyt · şimdiki hillitsee · ulaç hillitsevä
köken: hill- + -itä (from the same root as hiljaa and hiljainen). The -ll- is probably by analogy with verbs like hallita and vallita, in which case the original form was *hil(j)itä (hilitä is attested in dialects and older texts).
köken: From Proto-Italic *tenēō, stative from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). See also Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō), Persian تنیدن (tanidan, “to weave”), Sanskrit तनोति (tanóti) and Old English þennan.
to switch on, to turn on, to enable (to put a device in action or activate a function of an electronic device) · to include (to bring into as a part or member)
çekim: geçmiş vkljȗčen · ortaç vkljȗčen · şimdiki vkljȗči
From Middle High German enthalten, equivalent to ent- + halten. Influenced by innehalten, einhalten (literally “to hold inside”). This is clearest in the sense “to contain”, compare Inhalt (“contents”); but it is possible even in the sense “to abstain”, compare mit etwas einhalten (“to stop”), sich einhalten (“to restrain oneself”). Cognate with Dutch onthouden (“to remember, withhold”) and…