to skin (to remove the skin off) · to graze (one's body) · to mispronounce, butcher
çekim: geçmiş écorché · ortaç écorché · şimdiki écorche · ulaç écorchant
köken: Inherited from Old French escorchier, inherited from Late Latin excorticāre, from cortex. Compare the borrowing décortiquer and Catalan escorxar. Distantly related to écorcer.
aile: écorchure
Lors de son voyage, il s'était lié d'amitié avec un jeune voyou (ma mère disait : un pique-pochette, elle écorchait sans arrêt les mots) […]
çekim: geçmiş esfolei · ortaç esfolado · şimdiki esfola
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese esfolar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *exfollāre. By surface analysis, es- (“ex-”) + fol (“hide, skin, bag”) + -ar.
to skin, flay, fleece (remove the skin of an animal) · to fleece (con or trick (someone) out of money) · to beat, conquer, overcome, trounce (defeat a competitor by a very large margin)
çekim: geçmiş nylkenyt · şimdiki nylkee · ulaç nylkevä
köken: From Proto-Finnic *nülkedäk, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńülke-. Cognate with Erzya нельгемс (neľgems, “to take away”).
çekim: geçmiş belit · ortaç belit · şimdiki belește
köken: Probably from Latin vellere, with a change in conjugation. Traditionally, it was usually thought to be from Slavic bĕliti (“to whiten”); however, this presents a problem with semantics and there is already another word in Romanian derived from this source, bili, that preserved the original meaning. Compare also Aromanian bilescu.
to skin (especially an animal) (to remove the skin and/or fur of) · to damage (an object) through continued use; to wear out (a piece of clothing, etc.) · to overwork, overburden (a person or animal)
çekim: geçmiş nyúztak
köken: The stem is of disputed origin: either from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńowe- (“to skin, flay”) (compare Proto-Samic *ńuovëtēk (“to skin”)) or from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńujɜ- (“to skin, flay”) (compare Udmurt [Term?] (“to skin”), Southern Mansi њо̄йөӈ (ńōjôň, “to skin”)). Formed with -z (frequentative verb-forming suffix). First attested in 1211.
aile: elnyúz, lenyúz, megnyúz, széjjelnyúz, szétnyúz, ordít, mintha nyúznák
to flay · to skin · to fleece (con or trick out of money)
çekim: geçmiş esfolei · ortaç esfolado · şimdiki esfola
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese esfolar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). From es- (“ex-”) + fol (“hide, skin, bag”) + -ar. Cognate with Portuguese esfolar and Asturian esfollar.
aile: esfolador, esfoladura, esfolagatos
Que lle tomaran mays hun esqeiro et hun coytello desfollar e huun pente e hua chaue, que jurou que valía todo XXV mrs
—Xantar, xantaredes vosoutros, que tedes con que; pois a min xa me tedes esfolado — dixo polo baixo o labrego, saíndo da escribanía.