petty thief, crook, racketeer · sly, cunning person
çekim: çoğul Gaunern · tamlayan Gauners
eş: Betrüger, Schwindler, Schlitzohr, Spitzbube
köken: From thieves’ cant (Rotwelsch) Jauner, Joner (“gambler, cardsharp”), attested ca. 1500 alongside the verb jonen. Further usually derived from Yiddish יוון (Yoven/Yovon, “Greece”), from Hebrew יָוָן (yāwān), because Greeks were said to be skilful cardsharps (compare French Grec in this sense). The anlaut is due to hypercorrection based on the widespread Central German pronunciation of initial g-…
secretive, mysterious (not understood, not known, such that it has a secret, a mystery; expressing such characteristics) (of people, their behavior) · mysterious (unknown, not understood, unsolved) (of things, places, facts) · mysterious (causing a grim sense of discomfort or even fear)
çekim: karşılaştırma noslēpumaināks · üstünlük visnoslēpumainākais
köken: From noslēpums (“secret”) + -ains, with noslēpums from noslēp(t) (“to hide, to keep secret”) + -ums and noslēpt from no- + slēpt (“to hide”).
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto kaŝa Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *h₃émh₃ti Proto-Italic *amō Latin amō Latin amāre Old French amer Middle French aymer French aimer French aimeder. Esperanto -ema Esperanto kaŝema From kaŝa (“hidden, concealed”) + -ema (inclination suffix).