köken: From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.
köken: Inherited from Middle French chose, from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
aile: à peu de choses près, autre chose, avant toutes choses, c'est la moindre des choses, chose du passé, chose jugée, chose promise, chose due, chose-bine, chosifier, chosisme
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of the borrowing causa. Cognates include French chose, Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa.
aile: cosilla, cosita, alguna cosa, arroz con cosas, como si tal cosa, cosa de, cosa del otro jueves, cosa en sí, cosa juzgada, cosa perdida
köken: From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).
köken: From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”). -me is an interrogative formant. Doublet of нәмә (nəmə). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (nemä, “something”); Kyrgyz неме (neme, “something”), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, “what?”), Turkmen näme (“what?”), Uzbek nima, Uyghur نېمە (nëme), نىمە (nime, “what?”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what?”), Shor небе (“thing”), etc.
thing (a physical object, entity, or situation) · thingamajig; gizmo, thingy (something whose name is unknown)
çekim: çoğul coisas
eş: cousa
köken: Alteration of cousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese cousa, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”), meaning "thing" in Late and Vulgar Latin. Doublet of causa, a learned borrowing. Compare Galician cousa, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan cosa, and French chose.
aile: coisa-feia, coisa-ruim, coisar, coisas do arco-da-velha, coisificar, coisinha, coiso, coisona, qualquer coisa, que coisa
Aconteceu uma coisa bastante estranha ontem à noite.
Comprei umas coisas com o salário desse mês.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:coisa.
a thing (concrete or abstract – also of events, like in English) · a thing (something that exists, as opposed to not) · thing (subjective liking)
çekim: çoğul grejer · tamlayan grejs
köken: From earlier greja (whence the alternative plural form grejor). Borrowed from Norwegian greie, (dialectal) greida (“arrangement, (pl.) tools”). Derived from Old Norse greiða (“to arrange, comb, pay, perform”). Cognate with Danish grej, Norwegian Bokmål greie, and Norwegian Nynorsk greie.
aile: grejsimojs
Ölburkar och tvättmaskiner är två exempel på grejer.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Indo-European *kʷídder. Proto-Slavic *česo Old Polish co Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sьder. Old Polish -ś Old Polish coś Polish coś Inherited from Old Polish coś. By surface analysis, co + -ś. Compare Kashubian cos and Slovincian cesz.