çekim: geçmiş flatterte · ortaç geflattert · şimdiki flattert · ulaç flatternd
köken: Early New High German flatern, from Middle High German vladeren, probably related to Falter (“moth”). Compare Dutch fladderen, Lithuanian plazdė́ti (“to flutter, beat the wings vigorously”), Latvian pledināt (“to move the wings”).
Die Fahnen flattern im Wind.
Der Vogel geriet in Panik und flatterte mit den Flügeln.
to undulate, to wave (to cause to resemble a wave) · to knit meshes by bending them into loops using a machine · to undulate, to wave (to move in wavelike motions)
verbal noun of hullámzik: (of sea, ocean) swell, surge, undulation, billow (a long series of waves) · sway (a wavelike motion of objects without changing place, e.g. the swaying of wheat by the wind, flag, hair, etc.) · fluctuation, wavering, unsteadiness
Bulgarcaбръсвам, ве́я се, клатушкам се, клатя се, люлеене, люлея се
Slovakçahojdať sa, mávať, pohupovať sa, zamávať
Slovencemahati, pomahati
Litvancamojuoti
Letoncamāt, viļņot
Etimoloji
16th century. Predominantly considered an alteration of waaien (“to wave, blow”) after certain words for swinging motions with initial zw-. Specifically perhaps a merger of waaien with zwenken (“to sway, swing”). Another theory derives it from rare Middle Dutch swaden, swayen (“to scythe, swing a scythe”), which is cognate with English swath. Relation with Old Norse sveigja and English sway, is…