köken: From Middle High German künnen, kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). The umlauted ö in the infinitive and plural present—as well as the umlaut in the other modal verbs mögen (“to like”), müssen (“to have to”), and dürfen (“to be allowed to”)—is unexpected from an historical point of view.…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Italian capire Inherited from Latin capiō (“to take in, understand”), from Proto-Italic *kapiō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese caber (“to fit”), Catalan capir (“to…
aile: capiente
Ho capito quello che voleva dire.
Capisci?
né mi potrà più capir nel pensiero ch’in animo celeste possa accendersi desiderio carnale
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic знати (znati), from Proto-Slavic *znati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źnōˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéh₃t (“to know, get to know”), from *ǵneh₃-. Cognates include Polish znać, English know, kenning, canny, German kennen and Sanskrit ज्ञा (jñā, “to know”). For the collective noun sense of "nobility, aristocratic people", itself derived from the verb знать. It…
to know (be acquainted or familiar with) · to meet; to get to know (to become acquainted with) · to know (someone/something) (to ascribe to something the title or quality of)
çekim: geçmiş conheci · ortaç conhecido · şimdiki conhece
zıt: desconhecer
köken: From older conhocer, from Old Galician-Portuguese connocer, from Latin cognōscere.
Não conheço esse livro.
Venha cá, quero que você conheça meu primo.
A Jussara estava a fim de um cara e bolou um plano para conhecê-lo. Ou para ele a conhecer.
to understand · to identify with, relate to, understand
çekim: geçmiş ymmärtänyt · şimdiki ymmärtäisi · ulaç ymmärtävä
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ümbärtädäk. Roughly equivalent to ympäri (“around”) + -tää, thus initially “to go around, surround”. The sense “to understand” could be understood as a figurative development of 'surrounding' something with one's mind.
to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm · to take on, adopt · to hold, to contain
çekim: ortaç captus · şimdiki capit · ulaç capiēns
zıt: nesciō, ignōrō
köken: From Old Latin kapiō, from Proto-Italic *kapjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Cognate with Albanian kap, Breton kavout, Welsh cael, English have, heave, Lithuanian kàmpt, and Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō).
to know how to, to be able to do (a certain activity, task, etc.) · to know, to speak, to be fluent in (a language) · to know, to be able
çekim: geçmiş pratu · ortaç prasts · şimdiki prot
köken: From an earlier *prasti, from *prat-ti, from Proto-Baltic *prat-, from Proto-Indo-European *pret-, *prot- (“to understand”). The first-person form is derived from a variant with an extra n, *prantuo, from *prantu, from protu. Up until the 17th century, prast basically meant “to understand,” “to perceive,” i.e., it was synonymous with saprast; the present-day meaning occurred alongside the older…
çekim: geçmiş godhves · şimdiki gor · ulaç ow kodhvos
köken: From Old Cornish godbod, from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨbod. Originally a compound of bos (“to be”) with an adjective derived from Proto-Celtic *wid-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Breton gouzout and Welsh gwybod.