to wet (to make wet) · to accidentally urinate on something · to go south
çekim: geçmiş molhei · ortaç molhado · şimdiki molha
eş: enchoupar, moiar
zıt: enxugar, secar
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese mollar, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre (“soak”), a verb based on Latin mollis (“soft”). Compare Galician mollar, Spanish mojar.
to wet, dampen · to offer treat (usually a drink) for good luck for newly acquired goods · to send rain
çekim: geçmiş έβρεξα · ortaç έχοντας βρέξει · şimdiki βρέχει · ulaç βρέχοντας
köken: From Ancient Greek βρέχω (brékhō, “to wet, drench. Sense "rain" since Hellenistic times”). The impersonal 3rd singulars, by ellipsis of noun God, or Zeus, or the cloud, etc. Unrelated to βρέγμα (vrégma, “(anatomy) bregma”), assumed as related by Hippocrates and Aristotle.
aile: βρεγμένος, βρεμένος, βρεγμένη σανίδα, έχω μη στάξει και μη βρέξει, σαν τη βρεγμένη γάτα, τις βρέχω
Θα βρέξω τα ρούχα πριν τα σιδερώσω.
Αγόρασα παπούτσια. Πάμε να τα βρέξουμε.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:βρέχω.
to rinse, wash (to move by the force of water in motion) · to wash (to separate valuable material) · to leach (to purge a soluble matter out of something)
çekim: geçmiş huuhtonut · şimdiki huuhtoo · ulaç huuhtova
köken: From Proto-Finnic *huhtodak (compare Ingrian huuhtoa, Livonian ū’dõ), from Proto-Finno-Permic *šukštɜ- (compare Erzya кштамс (kštams), Moksha штамс (štams)).
çekim: ortaç lavātus · şimdiki lavat · ulaç lavāns
köken: From Proto-Italic *lawō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λούω (loúō), λοέω (loéō), Albanian laj, Old Armenian լոգանամ (loganam), and Old English lēaþor (English lather). Doublet with the later back-formed luō.
wet (containing, having absorbed moisture, water or some other liquid; having moisture, water or some other liquid on its surface) · wet, humid, rainy (characterized by increased rainfall, or by increased amounts of water vapor)
çekim: karşılaştırma slapjāks · üstünlük visslapjākais
eş: mikls, mitrs, valgs, valgans
zıt: sauss
köken: From the same stem as the verb slapt (“to be(come) wet”), with an extra j (cf. Lithuanian šlãpias).
köken: From Old Irish fliuch, from Proto-Celtic *wlikʷos (compare Welsh gwlyb, Cornish glyb), from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (compare Latin liquō (“melt”), Tocharian A lyīktsi (“to wash”)).