köken: From Middle High German billich, from Old High German billīh (“appropriate”), from a suffixed form of Proto-West Germanic *bil(i) (“merciful, kind, decent, fair”).
aile: spottbillig
Die Strafe ist billig und recht.
In Deutschland sind Lebensmittel billiger als in andern europäischen Ländern.
Das Vorgehen der Regierung ist ein billiges Ablenkungsmanöver.
cheap, inexpensive, affordable · cheap (of inferior quality or little value) · cheap, being uncharitable or simplistic
çekim: karşılaştırma goedkoper · üstünlük goedkoopst
eş: doorzichtig
köken: From Middle Dutch goetcoop, goeden coop (literally “good buy; good purchase”). Compare German Low German goodkoop, West Frisian goedkeap, Middle English good chepe. By surface analysis, goed (“good”) + koop (“purchase”).
cheap (that which can be bought with little money) · cheap (not demanding much money, means, etc. for its realization) · cheap (who works for little pay)
çekim: karşılaştırma lētāks · üstünlük vislētākais
zıt: dārgs
köken: From Proto-Baltic *lētas, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to let, to allow, to permit, to tolerate”) (whence also Latvian lēns (“slow”), q.v.) with an extra suffix -to. The semantic evolution was probably: “loose, slack, tired” (“allowed to go down”) > “slow” > “light, easy” (the basic meaning in 17th-century texts) > “easy to purchase” > “cheap” (by the mid-18th century). The earlier meaning…