lamentation, lament (sorrowful cry) · lament, threnody (mournful song expressing sadness over someone's death or some unpleasant event) · threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)
çekim: çoğul lamenty · tamlayan lamentu
köken: Etymology tree Latin lāmentumlbor. Polish lament Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentum.
to moan, groan (make a noise in response to a painful experience) · to complain, grouse, gripe, whine, bemoan, lament [with elative ‘about’] (orally or in writing) · to appeal
çekim: geçmiş valittanut · şimdiki valittaisi · ulaç valittava
köken: Unknown. Possibly from Old Norse vála (whence Icelandic vola), but a long -aa- would be expected; alternatively related to dialectal valo (“pain”) (found in standard language in luuvalo), or simply onomatopoeic. Has the suffix -ttaa but probably not in any causative sense.
çekim: ortaç lāmentātus · şimdiki lāmentātur · ulaç lāmentāns
köken: Etymology tree Latin lāmentum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -or Latin lāmentor From lāmentum + -or.
köken: Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Perhaps from lais (“song”); the semantic evolution would be "to sing", then "to sing (a sad song)", then "to mourn, to complain".