köken: From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.
köken: Uncertain. A connection to cisma (“schism; discord”) has been proposed on the grounds that rumours can cause strife. Coromines considers it more likely to be a further evolution of etymology 2 below.
köken: From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).
köken: From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”). -me is an interrogative formant. Doublet of нәмә (nəmə). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (nemä, “something”); Kyrgyz неме (neme, “something”), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, “what?”), Turkmen näme (“what?”), Uzbek nima, Uyghur نېمە (nëme), نىمە (nime, “what?”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what?”), Shor небе (“thing”), etc.
distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon · that one we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) · third-person personal pronoun: he, she, that person
köken: From older kare → are. Compound of あ (a, “that, yon”) + れ (-re, nominalizing suffix for demonstratives).
köken: Of uncertain origin. Commonly analysed as descending from dialectal 그슥 (geuseuk) or 거슥 (geoseuk), which has been explained as formed by analogy with the Middle Korean interrogative pronoun 므슥 “what” plus the suffix -이 (-i). In Modern Korean, 거시기 functions as an indefinite pronoun and as a discourse marker used when the speaker cannot, does not remember, or does not wish to name something directly.
a thing (concrete or abstract – also of events, like in English) · a thing (something that exists, as opposed to not) · thing (subjective liking)
çekim: çoğul grejer · tamlayan grejs
köken: From earlier greja (whence the alternative plural form grejor). Borrowed from Norwegian greie, (dialectal) greida (“arrangement, (pl.) tools”). Derived from Old Norse greiða (“to arrange, comb, pay, perform”). Cognate with Danish grej, Norwegian Bokmål greie, and Norwegian Nynorsk greie.
aile: grejsimojs
Ölburkar och tvättmaskiner är två exempel på grejer.
baloney, white lie, pitch (a small lie intended to impress or convince someone to do something for someone) · luxury accessory · stunner (something awesome or astonishing)
çekim: çoğul bajery · tamlayan bajeru
eş: bałach, farmazon, haft, kicior, kit, pic
köken: Back-formation from bajerować.
aile: bajerancki, bajerny, bajerancko, dla bajeru, bajeranctwo, bajerant, bajerantka, szmery bajery, bajerować, brać na bajer
Łykała wszystkie jego bajery bez mrugnięcia okiem.