to wriggle, to make fidgety movements (with the limbs and/or torso)
çekim: geçmiş zappelte · ortaç gezappelt · şimdiki zappelt · ulaç zappelnd
köken: From Late Middle High German zappel(e)n (15th c.), from older zabel(e)n, from Old High German zabalōn (“to move, wriggle”), from Proto-West Germanic *tabulōn, an iterative-diminutive of Proto-Germanic *tabōną, whence English tave (“to struggle, wrestle”). Ultimately onomatopoeic, like younger tappen. In zab(b)eln, the short vowel was preserved under the influence of following -el-. Voiced…
çekim: geçmiş wiebelden · ortaç gewiebeld · şimdiki wiebelt · ulaç wiebelend
köken: Perhaps from Middle Dutch *wippelen, equivalent to wippen + -elen, influenced by Dutch wiegelen, wipperen, etc. Compare English wobble, Low German wabbeln, German wabbeln.
çekim: geçmiş contorci · ortaç contorcido · şimdiki contorce
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- Proto-Italic *torkʷeō Latin torqueō Latin contorquēreslbor. Portuguese contorcer Semi-learned borrowing from Latin contorquēre, reshaped by analogy with torcer.