köken: Uncertain, probably related to lauw (“lukewarm”); compare English luke and lukewarm. The earliest attestations refer to the sense of "lukewarm", other senses are later semantic developments. The sense "calm, level-headed" is still visible in some derived terms, such as leukweg, leukjes and doodleuk.
the act or result of diverging (to tend into different directions) · diversion (tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action) · the act of entertaining
çekim: çoğul diversões
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin dīversiōnem, from Latin dīversus (“opposite; apart; diverse”), past participle of dīvertō (“to divert; to separate”).
high spirits, good humour, gaiety, merriness, merriment · good mood, disposition · good condition (of health), in form
çekim: çoğul κέφια · tamlayan κεφιού
eş: ευθυμία, ντουζένι
zıt: ακεφιά, δυσθυμία
köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كیف (keyf, literally “state, disposition”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “state, disposition”).
aile: ανάβει το γλέντι, ευθυμώ, ανάβει το κέφι, είμαι στα κέφια μου, έρχομαι στο κέφι, έχω κέφι, in plural έχω κέφια, τον, την κάνω κέφι, κάνω το κέφι μου
köken: The word possibly originally meant "wasteful, diminishing, useless" (in which case, compare hupa for semantic shift), in which case it might be related to haaska and derived from haja-.
corner beam supporting a section of an outward-sloping roof
çekim: çoğul dēliciae · tamlayan dēliciae
köken: Uncertain whether from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”), as in liqueō, or Proto-Italic *lakiō or *lakʷiō (“I draw, pull”), so dē- + laciō ("to draw away, drain"), of which the base verb is a hapax and possibly a nonce word. The latter root has plenty internal, but no certain external cognates; even so, De Vaan 2008 prefers this on semantic grounds, and k over kʷ due to its absence in…
aile: dēliciāris, dēliciātus
Displuviāta autem sunt, in quibus dēliciae arcam sustinentēs stīllicidia reiciunt
köken: From Old Church Slavonic весельѥ (veselĭje); cognate with Russian весе́лье (vesélʹje). Morphologically, an abstract noun from весе́л (vesél, “happy, joyful”) + -ие (-ie).