by means of; by; through · through; entering, then exiting · through (a period of time)
eş: mittels, vermittels, dank, hindurch, während
köken: From Middle High German durch, from Old High German duruh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw. Cognate with English through, thorough, Dutch door, West Frisian troch, Yiddish דורך (durkh).
köken: Compound of a (“to; at”) + través (“[the] turn”, from Latin trānsversus) + de (“of”). Compare Portuguese através de, Italian attraverso and French à travers.
for (on behalf of) · for (in order to obtain) · for (over a period of time)
eş: per
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese por, from Late Latin pōr, from Latin prō (“for”) (with metathetic shift under the influence of per). Usurped the roles of Latin per.
feminine accusative/instrumental singular of drogi
köken: Instrumental of droga. (by way of): Compare typologically Russian путём (putjóm) (instrumental singular of путь (putʹ)), English via (< ablative singular of Latin via).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kautta, the partitive singular of kausi; the adpositions are derived through an older meaning of “road, way” or “passage (of a journey)”.
through (in space, from one side to the other) · through (in space, from the outside, through an opening or through a barrier) · through, during (in time, from the beginning to the end)
köken: From Old Norse gegnum, dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”). Compare also Danish igen, English again, against, German gegen, entgegen.