success, prosperity, progress, advancement · industry, industriousness, hard work, diligence · The money or other rewards that come from industry or hard work.
köken: From Old Swedish flit, from Middle Low German vlīt, vlît, from Old Saxon *flīt, from Proto-West Germanic *flīt, from Proto-Germanic *flītaz, for which compare *flītan (“to strive”). See also German Low German Fliet, Saterland Frisian Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Danish flid, Norwegian Bokmål flid, Norwegian Nynorsk flit, and German Fleiß, Fleiss.
där flitens lampa brinner
Byråkrater, de har det bra. De stormtrivs på jobbet var dag. De skickar små fax hit och dit med ambition och mycket flit.
industriousness, diligence, dedication, zeal (quality of one who is industrious, hard-working, diligent)
çekim: tamlayan centības
köken: From censt(ies) (“to try”) + -ība. The standard present stem for this verb has š (es cenšos, “I try”), but dialectally also t (es centos), which explains why there are derived forms with t, like centīgs, centība (“zeal”), and with s, like censonis (“striver, fighter, assiduous person”) or sacensība (“competition”) (and also, colloquially, censīgs, censība).
simpātiska ir jūsu centība, neatlaidīga griba papildināt savu izgītību
From Middle High German flīz, vlīz, from Old High German flīz, from Proto-West Germanic *flītan (“to strive”), from Proto-Germanic *flītaz, *flītiz (“strife, zeal, effort, diligence”). Cognate with German Low German Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Saterland Frisian Fliet, English flite.