upright, on end, edgeways (usually said of things that are not normally positioned this way) · forcefully, with force; construed with verbs such as rausfliegen, rausschmeißen
eş: hochkantig
köken: By surface analysis, hoch (“high”) + Kante (“edge”). Compare Swedish på högkant.
Wir können das Sofa nur hochkant durch die Tür tragen.
Als er anfing, mir mit dem Anwalt zu drohen, hab ich ihn hochkant rausgeschmissen.
straight · direct; straight · right (dexter, opposite of left)
zıt: کج, چپ, دروغ
köken: From Middle Persian rāst, from Old Persian 𐎼𐎠𐎿𐎫 (rāsta, “right”), from Proto-Iranian *Hraštáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hraštás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with English right.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Late Latin pēs Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin pedō Old French peon French pionbor. Polish pion Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic…