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.
real, actual · essential, important · positive (definitely laid down, explicitly stated)
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German ēgentlik (“actual”), related to Swedish egentlig, German eigentlich, Dutch eigenlijk. Derived from the adjective Middle Low German ēgen (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz, cf. Danish egen, German eigen, English own.
Inherited from Old Hindi यूं (yūṃ), from Apabhramsa एउं (euṃ), a variant of एम (ema), एम्व (emva), a contraction of Prakrit एमेव (emeva), itself a contraction of एवमेव (evameva), from Sanskrit एवम् एव (evam eva). Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas, from Proto-Indo-European *óywos. Cognate with Gujarati એમ (ema, “thus”), Punjabi ਐਵੇਂ (aivẽ, “thus”). Doublet of इमि (imi) and related…