to button one's lip, to hold one's tongue, to keep one's lips sealed
eş: milczeć jak głaz, milczeć jak grób, milczeć jak kamień, milczeć jak zaklęty, milczeć jak zamurowany, nie puszczać pary z ust
köken: Literally, “to keep [one's] tongue behind [one's] teeth”. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьržati ęzykъ za zǫby, with the verb substituted by the synonym trzymać.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin taceō Latin conticeō From con- + taceō (“to be silent”).
to close (to make something not open) · to close (to close one's eyes/eyelids; to close one's mouth by pressing one's lips together; to close one's fist by pressing the fingers inwards) · to close (to close a book by pressing the pages together)
çekim: geçmiş none · ortaç затва́рян · şimdiki затва́ря · ulaç затва́рящ
to shut up; to be silent · to sink, submerge · to touch the bottom
çekim: geçmiş calei · ortaç calado · şimdiki cala
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin *callāre, from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō). Cognate with Portuguese calar and Spanish callar.