çekim: karşılaştırma alberner · üstünlük am albernsten
köken: From Middle High German alwære, from Old High German alawāri (“friendly, good-natured”), from a compound of Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”) + *wēraz (“true; friendly”). The final -n is an original case ending that was added to the stem in German Low German territory (compare schüchtern). Close cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 (allawērei, “sincerity, simplicity”); for a similar semantic association…
köken: From Middle French absurde (16th c.), relatinized form of older absourde, from Old French absorde (13th c.), a borrowing from Latin absurdus (“discordant, incongruous”).
köken: Perhaps ultimately related to the root of Old Armenian ճաղատ (čałat, “bare, bald”). Of dubious connection to Sanskrit कुण्ठ (kuṇṭhá, “blunt, dull”).
absurd (contrary to reason) · absurd, absurdist (deviating from the directly observable forms of reality and intentionally distorting them) · absurd, meaningless (having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; lacking order or value)
çekim: karşılaştırma abszurdabb · üstünlük legabszurdabb
köken: Borrowed from Latin absurdus (“discordant, senseless”), from ab- + surdus (“deaf”). First attested in 1761.
köken: Some researchers consider this term a simple borrowing from German dumm (“stupid”). Others derive it (and its parallel o-stem dialectal variant dums) from Proto-Baltic *dum-, *dūm-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰu-, *dʰū- (“to be dusty; to whirl; to blow”), whence also dūmi (“smoke”) (q.v.). The original meaning, possibly influenced by dūmi, was apparently “gray, dark brown” (compare Sudovian dumo…