köken: From Middle High German bīspil, bīspel, from Old High German bīspel (“proverb", "example”), equivalent to bī- (“by-”) + spel (“talk”), the latter from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“news, message, tale”). Cognate with Old English bīspel (“proverb", "example”), English byspel (“example”). Unrelated to spielen (“to play”).
aile: beispielhaft, beispielsweise, zum Beispiel, Gegenbeispiel
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çekim: çoğul duendes
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.
köken: From earlier esemplo, essemplo, probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin exemplum, derived from Latin eximō (“to take out, take away”). Compare the inherited doublet scempio.
köken: From Arabic مَقَال (maqāl), denoting a literary genre of a short and morally instructive bit. Cognate with Tatar мәкаль (mäqäl), Kazakh мақал (maqal), Kyrgyz макал (makal), Uzbek maqol, Uyghur ماقال (maqal, “proverb, adage”), etc.
köken: A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) + aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) + agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō,…