to recover, salvage, rescue; with regard to living beings this can mean dead or alive, for the latter retten is the normal word · to contain, hold, shelter, conceal · to take in, shorten (a sail)
çekim: geçmiş barg · ortaç geborgen · şimdiki birgt · ulaç bergend
to save, rescue; to protect · to save · to escape, run away
çekim: geçmiş sauvé · ortaç sauvé · şimdiki sauve · ulaç sauvant
köken: Inherited from Middle French saulver, from Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus. In the sense specific to North America, a semantic loan from English save.
aile: sauvable, sauvé par la cloche, sauvé par le gong, sauve qui peut, sauvegarder, sauver la face, sauver la mise, sauver les apparences, sauver les meubles, sauver l'honneur
çekim: geçmiş gered · ortaç gered · şimdiki redt · ulaç reddend
köken: From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną. Equivalent to rad (“quick”) + -en (“deadjectival”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.
aile: het redden, reddeloos, redder, redding, redmiddel
Hij wist zich ternauwernood uit het brandende wrak te redden.
çekim: geçmiş pelastanut · şimdiki pelastaisi · ulaç pelastava
köken: From pelas- + -taa, with a stem of unknown origin; it is sometimes theorized to derive from Proto-Germanic *felhaną (“to hide, conceal”), but the semantic development seems unusual. Cognates include Karelian pelaštua.
aile: pelastaja, pelastaminen, pelastus, pelastautua, pelastua, pelastaa kasvonsa
çekim: geçmiş rescatí · ortaç rescatat · şimdiki rescata
köken: From a mix of recaptar and regatar with the prefix res- instead, or from Vulgar Latin *reexcaptāre, from Latin captāre. Compare Spanish rescatar.