to mean, to get at, to be getting at (in the sense of the want to convey something)
çekim: geçmiş quise decir · ortaç querido decir
köken: Literally, “to want to say”. Compare many similar constructions in Romance languages such as Portuguese querer dizer, Galician querer dicir, French vouloir dire, Italian volere dire, Catalan voler dir, as well as Dutch willen zeggen.
to mean, signify · to understand · to be decided, have made up one's mind
çekim: geçmiş εννόησα · ortaç έχοντας εννοήσει · şimdiki εννοεί · ulaç εννοώντας
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐννοέω (ennoéō) / ἐννοῶ (ennoô). * Sense understand, semantic loan from English mean. * Sense of course, semantic loan from French bien entendu. By morphological surface analysis, from εν- (en-, “in”) + νοώ (noó, “think, understand”).
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean ᄠᅳᆮ〮ᄒᆞ다〮 (Yale: ptút-hòtá). 뜻 (tteut) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving active verbs).
to mean (convey, signify, indicate) · to mean; to be of importance (for someone) · to mean; to result in
çekim: geçmiş betydde · ortaç betydande · ulaç betydande
köken: From Old Swedish bethydha, from Middle Low German beduden, equivalent to be- + tyda. Cognate with Danish betyde, Norwegian Bokmål bety, Norwegian Nynorsk bety, German bedeuten, Vilamovian bydȧjta, Luxembourgish bedeiten, Dutch beduiden, older bedieden, Limburgish beduuje, Saterland Frisian betjuude and West Frisian betsjutte.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-tHo-m Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hártʰam Sanskrit अर्थ॑ (ártha)lbor. Hindi अर्थ Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अर्थ॑ (ártha), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hártʰam (“matter, object, purpose”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-tHo-m, from *h₁er-.