can, to be able to · may (of a choice) · to be possible; may, could be
çekim: geçmiş pu · ortaç pu · şimdiki peut · ulaç pouvant
köken: Inherited from Middle French povoir, from Old French povoir, pooir, from earlier Old French poeir, podeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, regularization of Latin posse. The /-v-/ was eventually added, after the loss of the intervocalic dental, to break hiatus. The archaic 1SG present indicative puis is from a Vulgar Latin *posseō (rather than possō), for which cf. Old Catalan puix. Cognates See also…
aile: advienne que pourra, autant que faire se peut, ne plus pouvoir voir en peinture, n'en plus pouvoir, n'en pouvoir mais, on ne peut plus, quand on veut, on peut, qui peut le plus peut le moins, sauve qui peut, tu peux causer
Je peux venir ce soir.
On est des étoiles dans ce ciel bleu clair et on mettra les voiles quand on pourra le faire.
to be able to, can · to be familiar with something, or with someone's personality
çekim: geçmiş pude · ortaç podido · şimdiki puede
eş: gobierno
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin potēre, regularization of Latin posse.
aile: a más no poder, hasta más no poder, no poder con su alma, no poder hacer carrera, no poder tragar, no poder ver, no puede ser, poder con, puede que, querer es poder
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic мощь (moštĭ), from Proto-Slavic *moťь. Compare native мочь (močʹ) and Ukrainian міч (mič) (both inherited from Old East Slavic мочь (močĭ)) and Ukrainian міць (micʹ) and Belarusian моц (moc) (both borrowed from Polish moc).
power, might · a power (a nation or other entity having great influence)
çekim: çoğul makter · tamlayan makts
köken: From Old Swedish makt, from Middle Low German macht, from Old Saxon maht, from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz. Compare mäktig.
might, power · powerhouse (source of power, energy or strength)
çekim: çoğul mahdit · tamlayan mahdin
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mahti, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz (whence also Old Swedish makt, Swedish makt). Probably also influenced by mahtaa. The adjective sense is probably by re-extraction from words like mahtimies, mahtitekijä and further influenced by mahtava.