to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
çekim: geçmiş льсти́вший · ortaç льсти́вший · şimdiki льсти́т · ulaç льстя́щий
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic льстити (lĭstiti) (also лестити (lestiti)), from Proto-Slavic *lьstiti, derived as if from *lьstь (whence лесть (lestʹ)) + -ить (-itʹ).
to roll up, to make into a ball · to cajole, to talk into
çekim: geçmiş 丸めた
eş: 丸め込む
köken: From Old Japanese 丸む (marumu), in the 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) pattern. Development Natural progression from Old and Classical Japanese 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) verbs ending in -u to modern Japanese 下(しも)一(いち)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo ichidan katsuyō, “lower monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in…
to carefully twist, bend, etc., (something) to accomplish something, with fiddly connotations; to coax · to carefully manipulate (someone or something, with good or bad intentions); to coax
çekim: geçmiş lirkade · ortaç lirkande · ulaç lirkande
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish *liþka (compare Icelandic liðka), derived from Old Norse liðr (“member”). For the shift from -dk- to -rk- compare with burk. Doublet of led.
En räv hade fastnat i ett stängsel, men de lyckades lirka loss den efter en timme
Han lyckades lirka upp låset med gaffeln
Vi fick lirka lite, men till slut gick han med på våra krav
to fawn, to curry favour (UK), to curry favor (US), to suck up, to toady, to wheedle (to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour) · to show affection
çekim: geçmiş підле́щувавшись · şimdiki підле́щується
köken: From підле́щувати (pidléščuvaty) + -ся (-sja).
to blandish, fawn, flatter, butter up (to praise someone dishonestly)
çekim: geçmiş hízelegtek
köken: From hízelkedik (“to flatter someone”) + -leg (frequentative verb-forming suffix), from an otherwise unattested stem + -lkedik. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
köken: Verbal derivation from מַחְמָאָה (makhma'á), itself derived from Psalms he:T:22, with translation of the New American Standard Bible: "His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war".
to fawn upon · to flatter or court · to make obeisance to
çekim: ortaç adūlātus · şimdiki adūlātur · ulaç adūlāns
köken: The first component is evidently ad- (“to, toward”); the second one, however, has an obscure origin. It has been conjectured to come from an unattested *ūlos (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”), whence English wool (via Proto-Germanic) and velvet (via a Latin diminutive). Compare Lithuanian valai (“horsetail hair”) and Sanskrit वाल (vā́la, “tail of an animal; tail hair;…
to soothe or appease (a crying or tantrum-throwing baby)
köken: The phonetic elements in the Nôm characters used to write this word (杜 (MC duX), 徒 (MC du)) as well as the modern North Central form thỗ/thổ point to earlier form with *-d-. This word is unrelated to 誘 (MC yuwX) (SV: dụ), although the character appeared in latter Nôm texts as sound changes in the mainstream dialects caused the two to become similar enough for 誘 to be used as a phonetic element.
aile: cám dỗ, dạy dỗ, dỗ dành, dụ dỗ
Bulgarcaлаская, ласка́я, подмазвам се, придумвам, склонявам, уговарям /ɫɐˈskajɐ/
to flatter, to adulate, to jolly · to blandish
çekim: geçmiş none · ortaç ласка́н · şimdiki ласка́е · ulaç ласка́ещ
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *laskati. By surface analysis, ласка (laska, “caress”) + -а́я (-ája).
From Middle High German smeicheln, smeichelen, of uncertain origin. Possibly an iterative of Middle High German smeichen; or alternatively from Old High German *smeihhalōn, from Proto-West Germanic *smaikulōn (“to caress, flatter, stroke”), an iterative of Proto-West Germanic *smaikōn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smē(y)g- / *smī̌g-, a guttural extension of Proto-Indo-European *smē- /…