köken: From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.
köken: Inherited from Middle French chose, from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
aile: à peu de choses près, autre chose, avant toutes choses, c'est la moindre des choses, chose du passé, chose jugée, chose promise, chose due, chose-bine, chosifier, chosisme
köken: From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).
köken: From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”). -me is an interrogative formant. Doublet of нәмә (nəmə). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (nemä, “something”); Kyrgyz неме (neme, “something”), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, “what?”), Turkmen näme (“what?”), Uzbek nima, Uyghur نېمە (nëme), نىمە (nime, “what?”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what?”), Shor небе (“thing”), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch alles, genitive of al. The use as a case-neutral form may have been reinforced by German alles, from a merger of Middle High German alles (genitive) and allez (nominative and accusative). Note, however, that Dutch iets (“something”) and niets (“nothing”) are also genitives, as is German nichts. Moreover, the form alles is also used in western German dialects where it cannot go…
a thing (concrete or abstract – also of events, like in English) · a thing (something that exists, as opposed to not) · thing (subjective liking)
çekim: çoğul grejer · tamlayan grejs
köken: From earlier greja (whence the alternative plural form grejor). Borrowed from Norwegian greie, (dialectal) greida (“arrangement, (pl.) tools”). Derived from Old Norse greiða (“to arrange, comb, pay, perform”). Cognate with Danish grej, Norwegian Bokmål greie, and Norwegian Nynorsk greie.
aile: grejsimojs
Ölburkar och tvättmaskiner är två exempel på grejer.
something (inanimate singular) · a little, a bit · somethings, some people (animate/inanimate plural (some))
köken: From Old Hindi कछु (kachu) undergoing metathesis, from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀺𑀁𑀘𑀺 (kiṃci); see there for more. Cognate with Bengali কিছু (kichu) and Punjabi ਕੁਝ (kujh). Originally the neuter nominative singular form of a paradigm whose masculine form became कोई (koī) and genitive form became किसी (kisī). See 𑀓𑁄𑀇 (koi) and 𑀓𑀲𑁆𑀲𑀇 (kassaï) for more.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Indo-European *kʷídder. Proto-Slavic *česo Old Polish co Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sьder. Old Polish -ś Old Polish coś Polish coś Inherited from Old Polish coś. By surface analysis, co + -ś. Compare Kashubian cos and Slovincian cesz.