a position (same location/orientation duality as in English); a location, a site · a situation, a state · an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)
çekim: çoğul lägen · tamlayan läges
köken: Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
position, state, situation (status with regard to conditions and circumstances) · status (person’s position or standing relative to that of others) · station (stopping place for transportation, especially ground transportation or air transportation)
çekim: çoğul asemat · tamlayan aseman
köken: From Proto-Finnic *asën ~ *asëma, equivalent to asea (“to place”) (obsolete) + -ma
köken: Via Middle Low German plātze and Old French place from Latin platēa, a loan from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), substantive of πλατύς (platús, “broad”). The Low German form was also borrowed to Late Old Norse plaz and Swedish plats.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der. Proto-Italic *sinō Latin sinō Latin situs Perfect passive participle of sinō (“to put, lay, set down; usually let, suffer, permit”).