to whistle (with one's mouth or a whistle) · to act as referee · to be uninterested in; to ignore; not to give a damn about
çekim: geçmiş pfiff · ortaç gepfiffen · şimdiki pfeift · ulaç pfeifend
eş: schiedsrichtern, schiedsen
köken: From Middle High German pfīfen, from Old High German pfīfōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpōn (“to play a flute; to whistle”). Cognate with Hunsrik peife, Yiddish פֿײַפֿן (fayfn).
to whistle · to whistle for, to blow on a whistle for · to boo by whistling (to show one's disapproval at something)
çekim: geçmiş sifflé · ortaç sifflé · şimdiki siffle · ulaç sifflant
eş: étufler, fluber
köken: Inherited from Old French sifler (later orthographically influenced by souffler), from Vulgar Latin *sīfilāre, probably an Osco-Umbrian influenced variant of Latin sībilāre (compare Spanish chiflar, Friulian sivilâ). Compare also the variant northern Old French dialectal form sufler (whence Norman sûfflier and Walloon xhufler), from a Vulgar Latin variant *sufilāre (compare Italian zufolare), as…
aile: avoir les oreilles qui sifflent, persiffler, persifler, sifflable, sifflade, sifflage, sifflant, sifflante, sifflée, siffleur
köken: Inherited from Proto-Austroasiatic *huəcʔ (“to whistle”) (Sidwell, 2024). Cognate with Koho hoac, Bahnar hôch, Khmer ហួច (huəc). Sidwell's suggestion is potentially dubious. In his cognate list, PAA *uə mostly corresponds to Vietic *o or *ɔ. Vietnamese hót is more likely than huýt to be the word that is directly inherited from *huəcʔ.