çekim: geçmiş жи́вший · ortaç жи́вший · şimdiki живёт · ulaç живу́щий
eş: быть, обитать, вековать, коротать век, водиться, проживать
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žiti (compare Belarusian жыць (žycʹ), Ukrainian жи́ти (žýty), Old Church Slavonic жити (žiti)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeih₃w- (“to live”). Cognate to Lithuanian gyventi, Sanskrit जीवति (jīvati, “lives”), Latin vīvō, and English quick.
to live, to reside (to have permanent or long-term residence; to treat a place as one's long-term place of residence) · to dwell, to live (to have one's habitat somewhere) · to dwell, to reside (to be felt by most people; to be in the air)
çekim: geçmiş locuit · ortaç locuit · şimdiki locuiește
köken: Borrowed from Hungarian lakik. The original, now archaic variant lăcui changed as a result of the influence of loc (“place”). Compare also înlocui.
to live, to be alive (to exist biologically) · to live (to exist consciously) · to live, to reside, to inhabit (a place)
çekim: geçmiş dzīvoju · ortaç dzīvots · şimdiki dzīvo
köken: From the same stem as dzīvs (q.v.), made into a regular second conjugation verb (ending -ot). It replaced an earlier dzīt (“to live”) (q.v.), of which it may have originally been the iterative form (in case it was not directly derived from dzīvs). Its original meaning, “to be alive, to exist,” was later extended to include also “to reside” (like English to live); cf. the derived term dzīvoklis…
çekim: geçmiş olla oodanud · ortaç oodanud · şimdiki ootab · ulaç ootav
köken: From Proto-Finnic *odottadak, from Proto-Uralic *woča-. Cognates include Finnish odottaa, Livonian vȯ’dlõ, Votic ootta, Ingrian ootella, Veps vottatada, Livvi vuottua, Ludian vuotada, Pite Sami ådsotet, Erzya учомс (učoms), Moksha учемс (učems) and Eastern Mari вучаш (vučaš). Possibly a derivation of oda, in which case the meaning has changed from to protect, to guard > to wait.
to be (at, in, on some place, some condition, etc). · to dwell, to live, to reside; to remain, to stay.
köken: From Proto-Tai *ˀjuːᴮ (“to be (in a place)”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩀᩪ᩵, Lao ຢູ່ (yū), Lü ᦊᦴᧈ (ẏuu¹), Tai Dam ꪤꪴ꪿, Shan ယူႇ (yùu), Ahom 𑜊𑜥 (jʸū), Bouyei qyus, Zhuang youq.