to think · not to forget; to remember · to imagine
çekim: geçmiş dachte · ortaç gedacht · şimdiki denkt · ulaç denkend
köken: From Middle High German denken, from Old High German denken, thenken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-. Cognate with Bavarian denkn, denka, Dutch denken, dinken, Low German denken, dinken, West Frisian tinke, English think, Icelandic þekkja.
çekim: geçmiş سنجید · ortaç سنجیده · şimdiki میسنجد · ulaç سنجنده
köken: From earlier سختن (saxtan), from Middle Persian [script needed] (s’htnˈ /saxtan/), from the present stem Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (snc /sanǰ-/, “to weigh”), from Proto-Iranian *θanǰáyati, from Proto-Indo-European *t(ʰ)ongʰ-éye-ti, from *t(ʰ)engʰ- (“to draw, pull back”), perhaps an extension of *ten-. Cognate to Younger Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬧𐬙𐬈 (θaṇjaiieṇte, 3pl.pres.med.).
köken: From Middle Dutch denken, from Old Dutch thenken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-.
köken: */kamukapu/ → /kamuɡapu/ → /kanɡafu/ → /kanɡaferu/ (regular change for lower bigrade verbs) → */kangaweru/ (semi-regular sound shift for the /f/ phoneme; see ハ行(ぎょう)転(てん)呼(こ) (ha-gyō tenko)) → /kanɡajeru/ (semi-regular sound shift, collapsing /we/ into /je/) → /kanɡaeru/ From Old Japanese. First cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720. Ultimate derivation uncertain. Theories include: * Given the ancient…
köken: ajattaa + -ella, derived from ajattaa like ajatus, as well as aate and aatos through dialectal forms. While the exact development from a verb meaning “to drive; chase” to senses related to thinking is not entirely clear, one possibility is that they are figurative uses of some dialectal senses of ajattaa, particularly “to chase, hunt” and “to follow a trail”, hinting at a “to chase, hunt, follow…