•to detain, staunch, or hold back the flow of water · to stall, suspend, or stop a project or business plan · to prohibit the free movement of merchandise
to make watertight, to stop water from flowing · to quench (thirst) · to satiate, to quench, to assuage
çekim: geçmiş étanché · ortaç étanché · şimdiki étanche · ulaç étanchant
köken: Inherited from Old French estanchier, of uncertain origin: possibly from a Vulgar Latin *stanticāre < *stanticus < Latin stantem. Compare Italian stanco, stancare, Spanish estancar.
to block (to fill, making it impossible to pass) · to block (to prevent passing) · to block (to prevent an action)
çekim: geçmiş blokowano · şimdiki blokuje
köken: Etymology tree Polish blok Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish blokować From blok + -ować. First attested in 1683.
to prevent, forestall, preclude, avert · to prevent, stop, keep, hinder, obstruct, impede, block someone · to block (on social media)
çekim: geçmiş estänyt · şimdiki estäisi · ulaç estävä
köken: Unclear; possibly from e- (“not”) + -stää (with an original sense of “to make not be, to make cease”), or alternatively esi- (“fore”) + -tää (with an original sense of “to block by putting something in front”). Cognate with Karelian esteä.
to stagnate, to be in stasis (e.g. of business or bodily circulation)
çekim: geçmiş pangtak
köken: Of uncertain origin, possibly from an onomatopoeic stem (compare kong (“to resound”)). Formed with -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix). First attested in 1792.
to check (control, limit, halt), restrain, suppress, hold back, hinder · to prevent, stop, block (out), obviate, preclude · to forbid, prohibit, proscribe, ban, bar
çekim: geçmiş coiscthe · ortaç coiscthe · şimdiki coisceann sé
köken: From Middle Irish coiscid, from Old Irish con·secha. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cosg.
From Latin stagnum, cognate with Old French estanchier and thereby English stanch. Alternatively from vulgar latin *extancāre, and this from Celtic *ektankō 'to fix, fasten'; cf. tancar.