çekim: geçmiş knuddelte · ortaç geknuddelt · şimdiki knuddelt · ulaç knuddelnd
eş: drücken, kuscheln, umarmen
köken: From Central German and German Low German [Term?] dialects; derived from a group of words meaning “knob, knot”. Compare Ripuarian Central Franconian Knöddel (“knot”), Middle Dutch knodde (“knob”). These words belong to the large group of stems related with Knoten (“knot”). The original sense of the verb is “to embrace tightly”; compare English canoodle in the same sense.
çekim: geçmiş knuffelden · ortaç geknuffeld · şimdiki knuffelt · ulaç knuffelend
eş: omhelzen
köken: Unknown, but probably a sound-symbolic/expressive word. Compare Low German knuffeln, knüffeln, an iterative form of Low German knuffen (“to poke; bump; nudge”), West Frisian knoffelje (“to push; knock; bump”).
to adore, to be sweet on · to persistently bother or annoy someone, to be a noodge to someone · to bully someone, to beat someone
çekim: geçmiş 可愛がった
köken: Derived as compound of 可愛い (kawaii, “cute, adorable”) + がる (-garu, “feeling or thinking that way”, suffix applied to nouns and adjective stems to create a verb).
to adjust, to tidy with the hand (of clothes, etc.) · to caress
çekim: geçmiş 매만졌다
köken: First attested in the Bang'eon jipseok (方言集釋 / 방언집석), 1778, as Early Modern Korean 매만지다 (Yale: maymancita), compound of 매 (mae) + 만지다 (manjida, “to touch”). The first element is perhaps 매 (mae, “carefully”), although there is a vowel length mismatch.