oh, alas (expressing surprise, sorrow, or understanding) · oh (preceding an offhand or annoyed remark) · oh (preceding an invocation or address, but rarely a solemn one)
çekim: tamlayan Achs
eş: ei, gar, zumal
köken: From Middle High German ach, from Old High German ah.
aile: ach du heilige Scheiße, ach du liebe Güte, ach du lieber Gott, ach du Scheiße, ach je, ach so, ächzen
Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, / Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;
köken: Shortening of nossa senhora (literally “our lady”), itself a shortening of minha nossa senhora (literally “my our lady”). The expression minha nossa senhora is probably influenced by meu Deus (literally “my God”), similarly to English Oh, my God and Spanish Dios mío.
Benge percebeu o clima tenso e resolveu dar mais uma das suas: — Nossa! O Chefinho tá-que-tá! Uma fera!
köken: Expressive; compare heu (“alas!”), and Sanskrit अहो (aho). Because of the latter comparison a Proto-Indo-European origin was traditionally assumed.
I can just hear you call your Palace class: / Come learn the Latin Eheu for alas.
Quem procul ex algā maestīs Mīnōis ocellīs saxea ut effigiēs bacchantis prōspicit, ēheu,
Eheu fugace, Postume, Postume labuntur anni nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae
used to express pleasure, e.g. because something tastes good or feels nice · used to express pleasant surprise · used to express reservations, slight disagreement, doubt etc.
köken: Partly borrowed from German, English, French, from Latin ah (“ah”), from Proto-Indo-European *ā. Partly also onomatopoeic. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål ah, English ah, German ah, French ah and Latin ah.
used to indicate various feelings: joy, excitement, fear, distress; oh! ah! · used to express certain mental states — e.g., surprise, disappointment, disapproval — in an emotional but also intelligent, perceptive way; ah! oh! · used to reinforce an interjection by either literally or metaphorically attributing some characteristic to the hearer; (ah,) you ... ! you ... ! oh ...!
köken: Borrowed from German ach (“oh”). In 16th- and 17th-century literature, o or oh was often used in this sense. In a text from 1638, German ach is translated as ok, which points to a borrowing from Russian ох (ox). The from ak, from German, was introduced in the 17th-18th century.
köken: From Middle Welsh dim, cognate with the rare Old Irish dim (“something, anything”) (which may be a Brythonic loanword), with further etymology uncertain. Matasović derives the word from Proto-Celtic *dis-smi-, dissimilated from Proto-Indo-European *dus-smi- (literally “bad one”). Alternatively, Morris-Jones hypothesizes the original meaning was “share, portion” and derives the word from…