to recover, salvage, rescue; with regard to living beings this can mean dead or alive, for the latter retten is the normal word · to contain, hold, shelter, conceal · to take in, shorten (a sail)
çekim: geçmiş barg · ortaç geborgen · şimdiki birgt · ulaç bergend
to look for, to seek · to look (to do something) · to mess with someone, ask for trouble
çekim: geçmiş cherché · ortaç cherché · şimdiki cherche · ulaç cherchant
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Late Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin circō Old French cerchier Middle French chercher French chercher Inherited from Middle French chercher, cercher, altered from Old French cerchier…
aile: chercher des noises, chercher des poux, chercher la femme, chercher la merde, chercher la petite bête, chercher midi à quatorze heures, chercher misère, chercher querelle, chercher ses mots, chercher un verre
çekim: geçmiş bevrijdden · ortaç bevrijd · şimdiki bevrijdt · ulaç bevrijdend
köken: From earlier bevrijen, from Middle Dutch bevriën, a prefixed form of vriën (“to free”). Can be interpreted synchronically as be- + vrijen or vrij + be- -en. The -d- is a hypercorrection, probably influenced by the past tense bevrijd and/or compensating for a mistakenly supposed case of d-weakening (compare vlieden); contrast vrijen, which has the etymologically expected form without -d-.
çekim: geçmiş ajudei · ortaç ajudado · şimdiki ajuda
eş: adjuvar
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ajudar, from Latin adiūtāre (“to help”). Compare Asturian ayudar, Catalan ajudar, Ladino ayudar, Occitan ajudar, Spanish ayudar.
köken: From older 助(たす)く (tasuku), a compound of 手(た) (ta-, “hand”) + 助(す)く (suku, “to help”). First appears in the late 900s. Development Natural progression from Old and Classical Japanese 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) verbs ending in -u to modern Japanese 下(しも)一(いち)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo ichidan katsuyō, “lower monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in…
çekim: geçmiş căutat · ortaç căutat · şimdiki caută
köken: Inherited from Latin captō, captāre. Phonetically, it may have resulted from the merger of more than one Latin word originally; the variant form căta is likely derived from the Vulgar Latin form *cattāre (compare Spanish and Portuguese catar, Venetan catar), but various other etymologies have been proposed for the standard form: it has been considered by some as originating from or being…
to look for; to seek; to search for · to earn (to receive payment for work)
çekim: geçmiş kerestek
köken: From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *kerä (“round, turning; to turn, twist”) stem as kerek, kerít, kerül + -s (obsolete frequentative verb-forming suffix). For the -s suffix, compare olvas (“to read”). Cognates include Finnish kierä (“twisted”), kiero (“twisted”). For the change of meaning, compare kerget (“to chase, pursue”, possibly related) and Latin ambīre (“to go round; solicit, strive”) and…