to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
humour (sense of amusement) · humour (bodily fluid)
çekim: çoğul humoren
köken: Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”). The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.
köken: Originally from Latin hūmor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.
humour (ability to see what the funny side of things and make others laugh) · humour (quality of being amusing, comical, funny) · humour (collection of texts or fragments of texts that entertain or make people laugh)
çekim: çoğul humory · tamlayan humoru
eş: poczucie humoru
köken: Etymology tree Latin hūmorlbor. Polish humor Learned borrowing from Latin hūmor.
köken: From Latin (h)ūmor (“fluid”). Doublet of humør (“spirits, mood”). The modern use of this word for mental processes goes back to Ancient and Medieval theories about the four fluids of the body.