Used to frame a statement as being a more (formally) truthful description of the situation in comparison to another claim or assumption · technically, strictly speaking, officially (with that description being secondary to some de-facto practice)
çekim: karşılaştırma eigentlicher · üstünlük am eigentlichsten
eş: im Grunde, im Grunde genommen, in Wirklichkeit, übrigens
köken: Inherited from Middle High German eigenlīche, equivalent to eigen + -lich. Compare Dutch eigenlijk.
Das wird zwar oft behauptet, aber das stimmt eigentlich gar nicht.
Eigentlich ist das verboten, aber es wird nicht durchgesetzt.
proper, actual, real, essential (in the very strictest sense of the word; entitled to its name, true)
köken: varsi- (“stem, handle”) (plural stem) + -nainen (compare varsin). Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1836; originally “permanent” in the folk language.