to squeeze · to tighten, constrict or compress · to press (e.g., a button)
çekim: geçmiş apreté · ortaç apretado · şimdiki aprieta
eş: chapar, transar
köken: Inherited from Late Latin appectorāre (undergoing metathesis in Old Spanish; compare similar occurrences in pretal, pretil, pretina), from Latin pectus (“chest”). Compare Portuguese apertar, Catalan apitrar.
aile: apretadera, apretadero, apretado, apretador, apretadura, apretamiento, apretar a correr, apretar el argumento, apretar el codo, apretar el culo
çekim: geçmiş digrignàto · ortaç digrignàto · şimdiki digrìgna · ulaç digrignànte
eş: dirugginire, arrotare
köken: From Old High German grīnan (“to twist the mouth”) (whence English grin and French grincer (“to squeak, to gnash”)), from Proto-Germanic *grīnaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to grind”). di- used either to represent downward motion or as an intensifier.
to creak (to make a prolonged sharp squeaking sound) · to grind (one’s teeth)
çekim: geçmiş rangi · ortaç rangido · şimdiki range
eş: rangir
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese renger, from Vulgar Latin *ringīre, from Latin ringor (“to show one's teeth”). Cognate with Galician renxer (“creak, grind (one's teeth)”).
Em pacientes que apresentam o hábito de apertamento dental ou de ranger os dentes (bruxismo), […]
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᆯ다〮 (Yale: kòl-tá), probably from pre-MK *; see Appendix:Koreanic reconstructions#/l/ and /ɾ/ merger. Manchu ᡥᠠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ (halambi, “to change, to replace”) is probably borrowed from Koreanic in ancient times.
to squeak (like unlubricated metal rubbing against metal, prototypically – high-pitched, relatively pure sounds) · to gnash, to grind (teeth, idiomatically) · to be friction, etc. (in cooperation or the like)
çekim: geçmiş gnisslade · ortaç gnisslande · ulaç gnisslande
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian скрегота́ти (skrehotáti), from Old East Slavic скрьгътати (skrĭgŭtati), from Proto-Slavic *skrьgъtati. By surface analysis, скре́гот- (skréhot-) + -ати (-aty).
to grind, gnash · to crush or grind to pieces · to lament over with rage, gnash the teeth
çekim: ortaç frēsus · şimdiki frendit · ulaç frendēns
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrendʰ- (“to crush; gnash”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *grindaną (“to grind”). Another plausible cognate is Lithuanian grę́sti (“to plane, scour”), but this requires an alternative root ending in *-d-. More information Sihler considers the development of *gʷʰr- to Latin fr- in this word surprising since a labiovelar consonant was generally…
to turn, to spin (to move, to cause something to move in circular motion, around an axis) · to turn, to whirl (to cause something to move in a whirl, swirl) · to turn, to whirl, to dance in fast circles
çekim: geçmiş griezu · ortaç griezts · şimdiki griež
köken: From earlier *grenz-, from Proto-Baltic *grenž-, from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵ-, from the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn; to wind; to wreathe”) with an extra ǵ and an infix -n-. A minority opinion considers griezt (“to turn”) to have the same origin as griezt (“to cut”) (see below), with the circular motion meaning coming from certain ways of cutting. Cognates include…
to gnash or grind, of the teeth. · to bite: to grip or hold with the teeth. · to bite: to cut, wound, etc, with the teeth.
köken: From Proto-Tai *katᴰ (“to take a bite”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨠᩢ᩠ᨯ, Lao ກັດ (kat), Lü ᦂᧆ (k̇ad), Tai Dam ꪀꪰꪒ, Tai Nüa ᥐᥖᥴ (kát), Shan ၵတ်း (kát), Zhuang gaet. Compare also Lakkia kat⁵⁵, Mon သ္ကိတ် (kit, “to bite”).