köken: Possibly through Middle Dutch vlau (“limp, weak”) from Old French flou; see further at French flou. If so, a doublet of Dutch flou. Compare with the Walloon flåwe (weak).
Hij haalt soms de flauwste grappen uit! - He pulls the lamest pranks sometimes!
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish klen, from Old Norse klénn, from Middle Low German klên, klêne, from Old Saxon klēni, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“clear, pure”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(e)lēi- (“gleaming”), from *gel- (“to gleam”). Doublet of klenod and klenät.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit *फिक्क (phikka), possibly related to Sanskrit फक्क (phakka). Cognate with Punjabi ਫਿੱਕ (phikka), Marathi फिके (phike), and Gujarati ફીકું (phīkũ).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hämärä, derived from a root hämä-, which may be possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Icelandic sámur). Related to Estonian hämar, Karelian hämärä, Livonian ämār, Veps hämär and Votic hämäre.
köken: Disputed. By surface analysis, the term is an adjective formed according to the model of terms such as inermis. It has been proposed that the term may derive from dēbeō (“to owe”) in the manner as habilis (“able to have”), from habeō (“to have, hold”). However, according to De Vaan, the form dēbilis is isolated within Latin and therefore likely archaic, in which case it may preserve an older…
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köken: From Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to lack”). Cognate with Middle High German manc f (“lack”), Tocharian B mänk- (“to be deprived of, lack”), and possibly Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled, faulty”).
weak (not having well developed muscles) · weak, poor (which works badly, has little or no strength) · weak (without courage, without strength in a difficult situation; vulnerable to negative influences, temptation, etc.)
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eş: jēls, švaks
zıt: stiprs, spēcīgs
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *wāy-, *way- (“weak”), perhaps derived from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Initially there were u- and o-stem forms (compare Lithuanian dialectal vójus (“weak, sick”), Latvian dialectal vājs); ultimately replaced by a yu-stem variant, yielding standard language vājš. On the meaning change, compare pūst, both “to move, advance with the wind blowing” and “to moan, to complain.”…