to release; to loosen; to let go · to abandon, to let go · to chicken out
çekim: geçmiş lâché · ortaç lâché · şimdiki lâche · ulaç lâchant
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg- Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-s-ós Latin laxus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laxō Vulgar Latin *laxicāre Vulgar Latin *lassicāre Old French laschier Middle French lascher French lâcher Inherited from Middle French lascher, from Old French…
aile: lâche, lâcher du lest, lâcher la grappe, lâcher la proie pour l'ombre, lâcher l'affaire, lâcher le morceau, lâcher les baskets, lâcher les basques, lâcher prise, lâcher une caisse
to leave, allow, let, let go, let go of, drop, drop off, abandon
çekim: geçmiş άφησα · ortaç έχοντας αφήσει · şimdiki αφήνει · ulaç αφήνοντας
köken: From the mediaeval Byzantine Greek ἀφήνω (aphḗnō), a metaplasm of the aorist ἄφησα (áphēsa) of Ancient Greek ἀφίημι (aphíēmi, “to send away, permit”).
to let go [with genitive (between the two words)] (to release from one's grasp) · to let go [with genitive (between the two words)] (to emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation) · Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see antaa, mennä [with genitive (between the two words)] (to let (someone) go somewhere)
to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge · to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand) · to announce, tell, report, send word, advise
çekim: ortaç missus · şimdiki mittit · ulaç mittēns
köken: Likely from mītō via the so-called littera rule, from Proto-Italic *meitō, from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“exchange, remove”), an extension of the root *mey- (“change”). From the original meaning “to exchange” a semantic shift occurred to “to give, bestow” and then “to let go, send”. Cognate with South Picene meitims, meitimúm (“monument”, nom. and acc. sg. respectively). External cognates…
to let go, release, drop · to get out, get away, get off
çekim: geçmiş slap · ortaç sluppet · ulaç slippende
köken: A merger of two related verbs: 1. the intransitive Old Norse sleppa (past tense slapp), from Proto-Germanic *slimpaną, cognate with Swedish slippa. 2. the transitive Old Norse sleppa (past tense sleppti), from Proto-Germanic *slampijaną, cognate with Swedish släppa. The Danish word is influenced by the similar but unrelated word Middle Low German slippen, Dutch slippen (whence English slip).