köken: From Middle High German abebrechen, from Old High German ababrehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *ababrekan. Equivalent to ab- + brechen. Cognate with Dutch afbreken (“to demolish, to decompose”).
aile: Abbrecher, Abbrechung
Der Sturm brach die Spitzen und Äste vieler Bäume ab.
Der Tassengriff bricht ab.
Der Athlet musste das Training wegen einer Verletzung abbrechen.
çekim: geçmiş мо́гший · ortaç мо́гший · şimdiki мо́жет · ulaç могу́щий
eş: быть в состоянии, быть в силах, уметь
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *moťi, from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-. Cognate to Ancient Greek μῆχος (mêkhos, “means, remedy”) and Proto-Germanic *maganą (“to be able, may”) (whence English may, might).
I can, be able · I may · μπορεί (boreí) it is possible, it may, maybe, perhaps it… (impersonal)
çekim: geçmiş μπόρεσα · ortaç έχοντας μπορέσει · şimdiki μπορεί · ulaç μπορώντας
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek ἐμπορῶ (emporô), ἠμπορῶ (ēmporô), ultimately from Ancient Greek εὐπορέω (euporéō, “to thrive, prosper, find means”) (with a folk etymology connection to ἔμπορος m (émporos, “merchant”)).
can; may · can; to be able to · ... can be used to ... (usually with ellipsed 之 (zhī, “this”)); literally: 可 (“can”) + 以 (“by; by means of; according to”)
a (large) vessel with a handle and spout; a jug, a pot · a can (of various containers, like watering cans, milk cans (even when having no spout), and oil cans) · an old Scandinavian unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 2.617 litres (1/10 cubic foot, when the Swedish foot was 0.297 metres)
to reject, turn down, discard (e.g. a plan) · to refuse, turn away (e.g. a person proposing something) · to abandon, desert, leave (e.g. one's spouse, child)
çekim: geçmiş hylännyt · şimdiki hylkää · ulaç hylkäävä
köken: Inherited from Old Czech, borrowed from Middle High German kanne (“jug, pitcher, can”), whence also Slovak kanva, Polish konew, Ukrainian кíнва (kínva), Russian ко́новь (kónovʹ).
köken: Possibly cognate with Arabic وَكَلَ (wakala, “to trust”), also found in Akkadian and Ethiopic, from Proto-Semitic *wakal-. Alternatively, Huehnergard and Olyan propose k-h-l as the proto-root.
be able to, can, may · in the 3rd person singular (pote est): it may be, it is possible · to have influence or efficacy, to avail, to have power over, to have mastery of, to rule over
çekim: şimdiki potest · ulaç potēns
zıt: nequeō
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin possum From Proto-Italic *possom, from *potis (“master in control of”) + *som (“to be”). By surface analysis, potis + sum. Cognates include Oscan 𐌐𐌞𐌕𐌝𐌀𐌃 (pútíad, “to be able”) and…