by means of; by; through · through; entering, then exiting · through (a period of time)
eş: mittels, vermittels, dank, hindurch, während
köken: From Middle High German durch, from Old High German duruh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw. Cognate with English through, thorough, Dutch door, West Frisian troch, Yiddish דורך (durkh).
köken: Compound of a (“to; at”) + través (“[the] turn”, from Latin trānsversus) + de (“of”). Compare Portuguese através de, Italian attraverso and French à travers.
eş: za pośrednictwem, za pomocą, przy pomocy, z pomocą, przez, ustami
köken: Etymology tree Polish po- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Balto-Slavic *per Proto-Slavic *per- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰsder. Proto-Slavic *-zъ Proto-Slavic *perzъ Old Polish przez Polish przez Polish poprzez From po- + przez.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kautta, the partitive singular of kausi; the adpositions are derived through an older meaning of “road, way” or “passage (of a journey)”.
köken: First attested in 1519. Of debated origin: * Continuation of the archaic adverb ált (compare által). * By clipping of the later term által, itself originally the adverb-suffixed form of ált. Their parallel usage gradually ceased and át was established in a concrete sense, által, in a figurative sense.
köken: From Proto-Italic *per, from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognates include Ancient Greek περί (perí), Sanskrit परि (pári), Lithuanian per, Albanian për and English for. The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.
through (in space, from one side to the other) · through (in space, from the outside, through an opening or through a barrier) · through, during (in time, from the beginning to the end)
köken: From Old Norse gegnum, dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”). Compare also Danish igen, English again, against, German gegen, entgegen.