köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic вънъ (vŭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vъnъ. Cognate with dialectal во́нки (vónki, “out”), Old Church Slavonic вънъ (vŭnŭ, “out”), Ukrainian во́нка (vónka, “out”), Bulgarian вън (vǎn, “out”) (also въ́нка (vǎ́nka)), Serbo-Croatian ва̏н (“out”), Slovene vèn (“out”) (tonal orthography), Czech ven (“out”), Slovak von (“out”), Old Polish wen (“out”), Upper Sorbian won (“out”),…
köken: Vowel shortening of doof (“deaf”), from Middle Dutch dôof, from Old Dutch *dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“stunned, deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”). Compare Swedish dov (“matt, muted”), English dowf.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-lta, from *-l(l)- (external locative infix; see -lle) + *-ta (ablative/separative case suffix). Compare -лдо (-ldo) in Erzya васолдо (vasoldo, “from afar”).
indicates actions whose direction is pointing away from the speaker, either literally or figuratively · indicates the unsuccessful or inaccurate completion of an action · indicates separation, deprivation, etc.
köken: Cognate with Northern Mansi эл- (èl-).
megy (“to go, to walk”) → elmegy (“to go away”)
vet (“to throw, to cast”) → elvet (“to dismiss, to rule out, to throw out (a plan or a possible solution)”)
néz (“to look”) → elnéz (“to excuse, to forgive, to look the other way”)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-der. Latin langueō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin languidus From langueō (“to be tired, sluggish”) + -idus.
(away) from, off, out of (movement or position away from; separation from) · from; since; due to (indicates the origin, start or cause) · for, of; against (indicates purpose)
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nō; compare Latvian nò (“from”), Old Prussian no, na (“onto, against, over”), Proto-Slavic *na (“on, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“up, on high”). In East Baltic the meaning somehow switched from "movement onto" to "movement away". Related to Polish na, Russian на (na), English on, Umbrian 𐌀𐌍- (an-), Old Persian 𐎠𐎴𐎠 (a-n-a /anā/, “upwards, along”), Avestan 𐬀𐬥𐬀…
köken: * From Proto-Baltic *blāwas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew-, *bʰlēw-, *bʰlāw-, from the zero grade of *bʰel- (“shiny, white”) (whence also Latvian balts (“white”)) with an extra -w. * Some researchers consider blāvs a borrowing from Middle Low German blā, blāw, from Old Saxon blāo (and likewise Lithuanian blãvas a borrowing from Latvian). Cognates include Lithuanian blãvas (“pale”), blausùs…