to search, to look for · to seek, to strive, to intend, to try
çekim: geçmiş suchte · ortaç gesucht · şimdiki sucht · ulaç suchend
eş: trachten, versuchen
köken: From Middle High German suochen, süechen, from Old High German suohhen, from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“seek out”). Originally Upper German form without umlaut on long rounded vowel before velar, reinforced against the umlauted Central German form (cf. Luxembourgish sichen) by the umlautless past forms (cf. cognate English seek…
to look for, to seek · to look (to do something) · to mess with someone, ask for trouble
çekim: geçmiş cherché · ortaç cherché · şimdiki cherche · ulaç cherchant
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Late Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin circō Old French cerchier Middle French chercher French chercher Inherited from Middle French chercher, cercher, altered from Old French cerchier…
aile: chercher des noises, chercher des poux, chercher la femme, chercher la merde, chercher la petite bête, chercher midi à quatorze heures, chercher misère, chercher querelle, chercher ses mots, chercher un verre
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish buscar. Ultimate origin unknown, possibly cognate with bosque, cognate with Portuguese buscar. Or possibly from a Celtic language; compare Old Irish búaid (“victory”) and Welsh budd (“gain”), all from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“gain”).
aile: busca, buscador, buscapersonas, buscapleitos, buscar las pulgas, buscar pelos en la sopa, buscar una aguja en un pajar, buscarle las cosquillas a alguien, buscarle tres pies al gato, buscarruidos
to search; to seek; to look for · to reach out (attempt to initiate communication) · to try; to attempt
çekim: geçmiş procurei · ortaç procurado · şimdiki procura
eş: buscar, buscar, investigar, pesquisar, tentar
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese procurar, from Late Latin prōcūrāre (“to manage, to administer”), from Latin prāre + cūrō (“to take care; to cure; to manage”). Cognate of English procure.
çekim: geçmiş căutat · ortaç căutat · şimdiki caută
köken: Inherited from Latin captō, captāre. Phonetically, it may have resulted from the merger of more than one Latin word originally; the variant form căta is likely derived from the Vulgar Latin form *cattāre (compare Spanish and Portuguese catar, Venetan catar), but various other etymologies have been proposed for the standard form: it has been considered by some as originating from or being…
to look for; to seek; to search for · to earn (to receive payment for work)
çekim: geçmiş kerestek
köken: From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (“round, turning; to turn, twist”) stem as kerek, kerít, kerül + -s (obsolete frequentative verb-forming suffix). For the -s suffix, compare olvas (“to read”). Cognates include Finnish kierä (“twisted”), kiero (“twisted”). For the change of meaning, compare kerget (“to chase, pursue”, possibly related) and Latin ambīre (“to go round; solicit, strive”) and…