köken: Of unknown origin. Possibly from Picard bidoule, berdoule (“mud”). First attested in 1940 as military slang for a mess (in the sense of a dirty or disordered thing).
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”).
distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon · that one we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) · third-person personal pronoun: he, she, that person
köken: From older kare → are. Compound of あ (a, “that, yon”) + れ (-re, nominalizing suffix for demonstratives).
köken: Of uncertain origin. Commonly analysed as descending from dialectal 그슥 (geuseuk) or 거슥 (geoseuk), which has been explained as formed by analogy with the Middle Korean interrogative pronoun 므슥 “what” plus the suffix -이 (-i). In Modern Korean, 거시기 functions as an indefinite pronoun and as a discourse marker used when the speaker cannot, does not remember, or does not wish to name something directly.
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: Inherited from Old East Slavic тъ (tŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).
věc, jejíž název mluvčí nezná nebo si na něj nemůže vzpomenout, příp. věc, která je těžko pojmenovatelná; příp. věc, kterou mluvčí nechce pojmenovat (tabuová náhrada, hesitační slovo)
thing, thingy, whatsit (a placeholder denoting a vague thing, or something whose name is forgotten by the speaker) · thingy, sex organ, genitalia
çekim: çoğul izék
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *atɜ (“thing, object”). Originally izej with the -j noun-forming suffix. Cognates include Mansi ut, Udmurt ot, Finnish asia, Estonian asi.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aquel, from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, a compound of Latin eccum and ille. Cognate with Portuguese aquele and Spanish aquel, among others.
köken: From இ- (i-, proximal marker) + -து (-tu). See Proto-Dravidian *i-tu (“this”). Cognates Cognate with Kannada ಇದು (idu), Malayalam ഇത് (itŭ) and Telugu ఇది (idi).