•to dribble, to spill (fall onto a surface in irregular drops) · to trickle (move or appear slowly and in small volumes) · to drip, to spill (cause a liquid or mushy substance to fall in irregular drops) [auxiliary haben]
köken: From Middle Dutch vleck, vlecke (also vlacke), from Old Dutch flec (attested as a byname) and *flekko, from Proto-West Germanic *flekkō, from Proto-Germanic *flekka- (“spot, mark, blemish”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂g-, *pleh₂k- (“to beat, strike”).
to stain, blot, speckle, smudge · to soil, taint, blemish
çekim: geçmiş pătat · ortaç pătat · şimdiki pătează
eş: murdări
köken: Probably from Vulgar Latin *pictāre, a verb based on Classical Latin pictus (“painted”). For the semantics, cf. Spanish pinta (“stain”) < pintar (“paint”, verb). The normal outcome of /kt/ is /pt/ in Romanian, but the loss of /p/ in this case can be explained as the result of dissimilation from the word-initial /p/. (Compare boteza < baptizāre and possibly pat < pactum.) Doublet of picta,…
stain, spot · a patch, a small area of land · penalty mark
çekim: çoğul pletter · tamlayan plets
köken: From or related to Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”). Compare Icelandic blettur (“stain, patch of land”) and Swedish plätt (“patch of land, small pancake”).