to confess, to avow, to profess (a belief, feeling, guilt, adherence to something) · to pledge oneself (to), to commit (to), to declare one's affiliation (with), to take a stand (on) · to claim responsibility (for)
çekim: geçmiş bekannte · ortaç bekannt · şimdiki bekennt · ulaç bekennend
eş: gestehen, zugeben, Zeugnis ablegen
köken: From Middle High German bekennen, from Old High German bikennen, from Proto-West Germanic *bikannijan. Equivalent to be- + kennen. Cognates include Dutch bekennen, and English and Scots beken.
to acknowledge, confess · to see, to make out, to discern · to have sex, to know, have carnal knowledge
çekim: geçmiş bekenden · ortaç bekend · şimdiki bekent · ulaç bekennend
köken: From Middle Dutch bekennen, from Old Dutch bikennen, from Proto-West Germanic *bikannijan. Equivalent to be- + kennen. Cognates include German bekennen, and English and Scots beken.
to accept, admit, to approve, to allow · to recognize · to acknowledge
çekim: geçmiş 認めた
eş: 諾う
zıt: 否む, 拒む, 打ち消す
köken: Thought to be from 見(み) (mi, “seeing, looking”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 見(み)る (miru, “to see, to look”)) + 留(と)める (tomeru, “to hold, to keep, to remain”), possibly with semantics like “to keep one's vision on” → “to recognize, to acknowledge, to observe”.
çekim: geçmiş bekände · ortaç bekänd · ulaç bekännande
köken: From Old Swedish bekænna, from Middle Low German bekennen. Equivalent of be- + känna. Cognate with Danish bekende, Norwegian Bokmål bekjenne, German bekennen and Dutch bekennen.
to concede, admit, agree · to award, bestow (a prize, etc.) · to grant, issue
çekim: geçmiş myöntänyt · şimdiki myöntäisi · ulaç myöntävä
zıt: kiistää, kieltää, evätä
köken: From myö + -ntää, from the same root √myö- (Proto-Finnic *möö-) as myöhä, myös, myötä. Cognate with Karelian myöntyö (“to calm down, cool down”). Originally attested in 1756 in the sense “to give in, give way, yield”; the modern senses are based on the sense “to concede, admit; to grant”, which was coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1837.
to confess, admit · to acknowledge, agree · to reveal, show
çekim: ortaç cōnfessus · şimdiki cōnfitētur · ulaç cōnfitēns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Italic *fatēōr Latin fateor Latin cōnfiteor From con- + fateor (“acknowledge, own (up to)”).
aile: cōnfessiō, cōnfessor, cōnfessus
Confiteor Deo omnipotenti...
[…] haec ego sīc singula cōnfiteor.
Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius.
Inherited from Old French avoer, from Latin advocāre. The modern form is expected as in louer (from locāre). However, the Old French conjugation shows an unexpected vocalism, which may be due either to early levelling or to Latinate influence.