to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
to roll up, to make into a ball · to cajole, to talk into
çekim: geçmiş 丸めた
eş: 丸め込む
köken: From Old Japanese 丸む (marumu), in the 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) pattern. Development Natural progression from Old and Classical Japanese 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) verbs ending in -u to modern Japanese 下(しも)一(いち)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo ichidan katsuyō, “lower monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in…
to carefully twist, bend, etc., (something) to accomplish something, with fiddly connotations; to coax · to carefully manipulate (someone or something, with good or bad intentions); to coax
çekim: geçmiş lirkade · ortaç lirkande · ulaç lirkande
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish *liþka (compare Icelandic liðka), derived from Old Norse liðr (“member”). For the shift from -dk- to -rk- compare with burk. Doublet of led.
En räv hade fastnat i ett stängsel, men de lyckades lirka loss den efter en timme
Han lyckades lirka upp låset med gaffeln
Vi fick lirka lite, men till slut gick han med på våra krav
Lehçenaciągać, naciągnąć, przymilać się, przymilić się, przypochlebiać się, przypochlebić się /naˈt͡ɕɔŋ.ɡat͡ɕ/
to stretch over, to put on something held by elasticity · to tension, to tighten · to embellish
to fawn, to curry favour (UK), to curry favor (US), to suck up, to toady, to wheedle (to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour) · to show affection
çekim: geçmiş підле́щувавшись · şimdiki підле́щується
köken: From підле́щувати (pidléščuvaty) + -ся (-sja).
to blandish, fawn, flatter, butter up (to praise someone dishonestly)
çekim: geçmiş hízelegtek
köken: From hízelkedik (“to flatter someone”) + -leg (frequentative verb-forming suffix), from an otherwise unattested stem + -lkedik. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
to soothe or appease (a crying or tantrum-throwing baby)
köken: The phonetic elements in the Nôm characters used to write this word (杜 (MC duX), 徒 (MC du)) as well as the modern North Central form thỗ/thổ point to earlier form with *-d-. This word is unrelated to 誘 (MC yuwX) (SV: dụ), although the character appeared in latter Nôm texts as sound changes in the mainstream dialects caused the two to become similar enough for 誘 to be used as a phonetic element.
çekim: geçmiş entabaní · ortaç entabanat · şimdiki entabana
köken: Derived from tabà (“a kind of briefcase, basket or fabric bag”), variant of tabac, from Arabic طبق (“ṭābaq”). The original meaning of entabanar must have been "to enclose within a fabric bag or basket".
çekim: geçmiş bladartha · ortaç bladartha · şimdiki bladraíonn sé
köken: Borrowed from Middle English bloderen (“to blather”) or borrowed directly from its source Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”).
aile: bladaireacht
Bladair an drochmhadra agus ní heagal duit an dea-mhadra.
çekim: geçmiş ticet · ortaç ticet · şimdiki tices · ulaç ticin
köken: From Middle English tyce, aphetic from Old French atisier (“to stir up”), probably from a word meaning "to set on fire," derived from Latin titio (“firebrand”). Compare English entice.