to lie (to be in a horizontal position) · to lie down · to be, to lie somewhere (of flat objects, also of inpatients in a hospital; otherwise use sitzen or stehen)
çekim: geçmiş lag · ortaç gelegen · şimdiki liegt · ulaç liegend
köken: From Middle High German ligen, from Old High German ligen, from older liggen by generalisation of the stem of the 2nd and 3rd persons singular, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Compare Low German liggen, Dutch liggen, English lie, Danish ligge, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan).
to be · used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of certain verbs (including all reflexive verbs, except regionally) · used to form the passive voice
çekim: geçmiş été · ortaç été · şimdiki est · ulaç étant
köken: From Middle French and Old French estre and ester, respectively from Early Medieval Latin essere (< esse "be") and Latin stāre (“stand”). Conjugations reflect both but more so the former. The form suis "(I) am" appears to reflect Vulgar Latin *suiō < Latin sum. Compare ai "(I) have", sais "(I) know" < *aiō, *saiō < habeō, sapiō. Cognates See also Angevin éter, étère, eteur, Aragonese estar,…
aile: ça a été, ça y est, ceci étant, cela étant, c'est pour ça, c’est, en être, est-ce que, être à, être après
köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic бꙑти (byti), from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei. Cognate with Ukrainian бути (buty), Belarusian быць (bycʹ), Polish być. Other cognates include Sanskrit भू (bhū, “to be”), Latin futūrus, and English be. The present forms are suppletive, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.
to be (indicates location in space) · to be (denotes a transient quality; a quality expected to change) · to be; forms the progressive aspect
çekim: geçmiş estive · ortaç estado · şimdiki está
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese estar, from Latin stāre (“stand”). The stems estev- or estiv- found in some inflections likely come from Vulgar Latin *stēvī (perfect in -ēv-, used by some Latin second conjugation verbs), hypothetical perfect stem that displaced original Classical Latin perfect stetī. Compare the same development in Spanish estar. The present subjunctive stem estej- is by analogy…
aile: está bem, estar a fim, estar fora de si, estar frito, estar para, estar para nascer, estar por, estar por dentro, estar por fora, não estar com nada
to be · there is, there are, to exist · to support, be a supporter of (team, political party etc)
çekim: şimdiki είναι · ulaç όντας
köken: From Byzantine Greek εἶμαι (eîmai), from Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimí, “to be”), from Proto-Hellenic *ehmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).
to exist, to be, to have · 在る: (inanimate) to be at a location; to be located · 有る: (animate) to exist, with the existence considered objective and abstract
çekim: geçmiş あった
köken: From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *aru. Compare the classical form 有(あ)り (ari).
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 거〯즛〮말〯 (Yale: kěcús mǎl). Analyzable as 거짓 (geojit, “false”) + 말 (mal, “word”).
to be (indicates sameness or membership in a class) · to be (auxilary verb used for predication) · forms the future tense of imperfective verbs
çekim: geçmiş byłem · şimdiki jest
eş: istnieć, znajdować się
zıt: nie ma
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei Proto-Slavic *byti Old Polish być Polish być Inherited from Old Polish być.
aile: zbyteczny, nabytek, pobyt, przybytek, ubytek, zbytek, być w błędzie, dobyć, dobywać, nabyć
to be · to feel (to experience a certain condition) · to be it in a game of tag
çekim: geçmiş fost · ortaç fost · şimdiki este
köken: Inherited from Latin sum. The citation form and the f- conjugations come from Vulgar Latin *fīre < Latin fierī (“become”). Compare Aromanian hiu.