çekim: karşılaştırma lieflijker · üstünlük lieflijkst
eş: zachtaardig, zoek, bekoorlijk
köken: By surface analysis, lief + -lijk. Diachronically, from Proto-Germanic *leubalīkaz. Cognate with German lieblich, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (liubaleiks).
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *quetus, from Latin quiētus with the prefix în- added later in Romanian from the variant cet. See also the doublet chit, which came later through French.
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *mland-, a nasalised variant of *meld-, extended form of *mel-. Cognate to Sanskrit मण्ड (maṇḍa, “cream; liquor; pleasantness; adornment, embellishment”). See mollis.
soft (relatively easy to bend, split, crush, etc.; made of such materials, substances) · soft (flexible, not resistant, not strong, not twisted) · soft (not resistant to pressure; pleasant, comfortable)
çekim: karşılaştırma mīkstāks · üstünlük vismīkstākais
eş: ciešs
zıt: ciets
köken: From the past participle of an old (still dialectally attested) verb mīkt, mīkst (“to become soft”), from Proto-Baltic *mink-, Proto-Balto-Slavic *minˀkas, from Proto-Indo-European *menk-, *mn̥k- (“to knead, to crush”). The original meaning referred to the final state of things that one kneads or crushes (compare English verb to squash and adjective squashy). Cognates include Lithuanian…
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *mildijaz Old High German miltider. Middle High German milteder. German mildbor. ▲ Proto-Germanic *mildijaz Old English mildeder. Middle English mildeder. English mildbor. ▲ Proto-Germanic *mildijaz Old Norse mildr Icelandic mildurbor. Esperanto milda Borrowed from German mild, English mild, Icelandic mildur. First attested in 1907.