to dodge (a blow), duck · to evade, elude · to sidestep, to strafe
çekim: geçmiş esquivé · ortaç esquivé · şimdiki esquive · ulaç esquivant
köken: Inherited from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), itself from Old French eschiver from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhan, if not formed from esquivo.
to shirk, neglect [with elative (with verbs, of the verbal noun)] (to evade from one's duties or obligations)
çekim: geçmiş laistanut · şimdiki laistaisi · ulaç laistava
köken: Probably from laita + -istaa (where the loss of -d- is regular in eastern dialects), or alternatively a later semantic shift from laistaa (etymology 2). The verb has in either case shifted into a conjugation with an -oi- past stem.