to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
to combine (to bring two or more things or activities together) · to rustle up, to wangle (to forage for, or to quickly prepare, something) · to figure out, to infer (to come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce)
çekim: geçmiş kombinowano · şimdiki kombinuje
eş: komponować, łączyć, zespalać, zestawiać
köken: Etymology tree French combinerbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish kombinować From French combiner + Polish -ować.
Józek kombinował, jak wykorzystać swój stary toster, i przerobił go na grzejnik.
to soothe or appease (a crying or tantrum-throwing baby)
köken: The phonetic elements in the Nôm characters used to write this word (杜 (MC duX), 徒 (MC du)) as well as the modern North Central form thỗ/thổ point to earlier form with *-d-. This word is unrelated to 誘 (MC yuwX) (SV: dụ), although the character appeared in latter Nôm texts as sound changes in the mainstream dialects caused the two to become similar enough for 誘 to be used as a phonetic element.