köken: Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin. Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.
rough, coarse, harsh (not smooth, uneven) · coarse (composed of large particles) · rough, broad (approximate; hasty or careless)
çekim: karşılaştırma karkeampi · üstünlük karkein
köken: From Proto-Finnic *karkëda, from Proto-Finno-Permic *karketa. * (unrefined): A semantic loan from other European languages; compare French gros, German grob. The antonym hieno (“fine; refined”) is likewise similarly semantically informed by other languages.
rough, harsh, uneven, rugged (having an irregular, not smooth, harsh surface) · rough (not soft) · hard, coarse, not soft
çekim: karşılaştırma raupjāks · üstünlük visraupjākais
eş: ass, negluds, rupjš, ciets
zıt: gluds, maigs, mīksts
köken: From an earlier adjective *raupus (yielding two parallel forms, a yo-stem form that became standard raupjš and an o-stem form that yielded the archaic noun raups), from the o-grade form *roup- of Proto-Indo-European *reup-, *rūp-, *rup- (“to pull, to tear, to break”) (from the *rup- form comes the adjective rupjš, q.v.), from the stem *reu- (“to peel, to pluck, to dig”). The semantic evolution…
hireling (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks) · soldier of fortune, mercenary · hooligan
çekim: çoğul amhais · tamlayan amhais
köken: From Old Irish amus, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi- (“around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Related to English ambassador.
aile: amhasóir, amhsach, amhsán, ceantar na n-amhas