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 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
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.