köken: Univerbation of ob + wohl, from the older use of ob as a conditional and concessive conjunction, reinforced with an adverb. Compare obgleich, obschon, obzwar and also gleichwohl.
Frau Anna, unsere Empfangsdame, flirtet mit Patienten, obwohl sie Mutter von drei Kindern ist.
eş: пусть, пусть, что, хотя бы, к примеру, например
köken: Per Vasmer, shortened from хотя́ (xotjá), probably from Old East Slavic хотѧ (xotę, present active participle of хотѣти (xotěti)). Compare Polish choć and its derivation from Old Polish chocia.
in spite of, despite, regardless of, notwithstanding, although
köken: Cognate with Tatar карамастан (qaramastan), Kazakh қарамастан (qaramastan), Uzbek qaramasdan, Uyghur قارىماستىن (qarimastin, “despite, notwistanding”).
Эстән янып-көйөүгә ҡарамаҫтан, кисерештәренең тамсыһын да иренә күрһәтергә ашыҡманы.
köken: From Old Japanese. Attested since at least the Man'yōshū of 759. Analyzable as 仮定形(かていけい) (kateikei)/已然形(いぜんけい) (izenkei) of verb 言(い)う (iu, to say) + inflectional suffix ど (do, indicating contrasting conjunction) + particle も (mo). The kanji spelling is from Middle Chinese via kanbun. Up through the Heian period, the reading ifu to mo was used specifically for hypothetical statements, while the…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ōd Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō Proto-Slavic *a Proto-Slavic *če univ. Proto-Slavic *ače Old Czech ač Czech ač Inherited from Old Czech ač, from Proto-Slavic *ače. First attested in the 14th century.