köken: From Middle High German doch, from Old High German doh, from Proto-West Germanic *þauh, from Proto-Germanic *þauh. Cognate to Old English þēah (English though).
köken: From an earlier form eylə (now superseded). Possibly ultimately from merging of the earlier forms of o (“that”) and ile, ilə (“with”). Cognate with Karakhanid اَیْلا (ayla, eyle) and اَیْلُقْاَیْلُقْ (ayluq-ayluq, ayloq-ayloq), which Kashghari marks as Oghuz words. Also cognate with Kipchak alay, Turkish öyle, Turkmen eýle. Not cognate with Turkish öğle (“noon”) Tatar өйлә (öylä, “noon”). See…
Putindən əsl supermen düzəldirlər, ancaq o elə deyil.
Qəddafi üzdən sadəlövh və bədəvi görünür. Əslində o, elə deyil. Bu insan hər şeyə diqqət yetirirdi.
Onun dövründəki təzyiq və zorakılıq elə bir həddə gəlmişdir ki...
köken: From Middle Dutch alse, an unstressed form of also (modern alzo). The sense “whether” is possibly a semantic loan from Sranan Tongo efu (“if, when; if, whether”).
Als je die knop indrukt, gaat de computer uit.
Als het regent worden alle daken nat.
Dinsdagochtend op een grindpad / Het weekend geweest / Men maakt zich op / Voor de wandeling / Als ging men naar een feest
yes (in response to negative questions), disagree · Response to words of gratitude.
eş: ううん
zıt: はい, うん
köken: /ina/ → /ija/ → /ije/ → /iːe/ First cited to the late 1600s. Shift from いや (iya), from even earlier 否 (ina). While いや (iya) was broadly used in the Muromachi period, in the Edo period, いや (iya) shifted to use mainly in informal or more intimate contexts, while いいえ (īe) was used in more formal or polite contexts. いや (iya) is still in use, including broader senses not included for いいえ (īe).
indirect question marker: whether, if, who, what, where, how ... · Conveys a careful, indirect question. Nowadays typically used with -요 (-yo) for further politeness. · perhaps because...
köken: From Middle Korean -ᄂᆞᆫ디 (Yale: -nonti), equivalent to Middle Korean -ᄂᆞ- (Yale: -no-, present-tense marker) + -ㄴ (Yale: -n, realis adnominal suffix) + ᄃᆞ (Yale: to, semantically light dependent noun) + -이 (Yale: -i).
until · voila; soon, shortly; suddenly · only; scarcely; as soon as; when, as
eş: gw. (Górny Śląsk) aże
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ōd Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō Proto-Slavic *a Proto-Indo-European *gʰe Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge Proto-Slavic *že univ. Proto-Slavic *aže Old Polish aż Polish aż Inherited from Old Polish aż.
must (+ infinitive) · should, ought to (+ infinitive) · have to (+ infinitive)
köken: Inherited from Middle Ukrainian повиненъ, повыненъ (povynen, povynen), from Old East Slavic повиньнъ (povinĭnŭ), the sense "obligated, ought" may have been reinforced by Old Polish powinien, as it was uncommon in Old East Slavic. By surface analysis, по (po) + вина́ (vyná) + -ен (-en). Cognate with Belarusian паві́нен (pavínjen), Polish powinien.
In indirect questions, -ko/-kö appended to the verb corresponds to the conjunctions if and whether in English. · With the particle -han/-hän attached to the topic of discussion, it expresses "I wonder if". · With the negative verb (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät) and the particle -han/-hän, expresses "I suppose".
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-ko, probably ultimately from Proto-Uralic *ko-.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech ano, from Proto-Slavic *ano. Compare Slovak áno (“yes”), Polish ano (“yes, indeed”). First attested in the 15th century.
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum tantum, from Latin eccum + tantum. (The initial syllable of *eccum- compounds regularly turns to /a-/ in Romanian.) Closely parallel to Italian cotanto and Old Catalan aitant. Compare also Old French itant, Old Spanish atanto (as well as French tant, Italian tanto, Spanish tanto). For a clearer view of the phonetic evolution of the Romanian word, compare the…