to incline, slant, tilt, bend, lower (move something in some direction by bowing or turning slightly) · to incline, slant, lean, bow (intransitive use always requires an adverb of place) · to be inclined, to tend towards, to have a preference for
çekim: geçmiş neigte · ortaç geneigt · şimdiki neigt · ulaç neigend
köken: From a merger of Middle High German nīgen (intransitive, strong) and neigen (transitive, weak), from Old High German nīgan and neigen, from Proto-Germanic *hnīganą and its causative *hnaigijaną. Cognate with Dutch nijgen and neigen, Old English hnīgan and Old English hnǣgan, Old Norse hnīga and hneiga. Strong forms have been absent from the standard language since the 16th century, but survive in…
to tend, incline (to show a tendency) · to bend down, bow, direct downwards
çekim: geçmiş neigden · ortaç geneigd · şimdiki neigt · ulaç neigend
köken: From Middle Dutch neigen, from Old Dutch neigen, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaigijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnaigijaną, the causative of nijgen. The weak verb adopted most intransitive uses from strong nijgen in modern Dutch, the latter being restricted to “bowing as a sign of respect”. Compare however genegen (“inclined to”).