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…
to fawn, to curry favour (UK), to curry favor (US), to suck up, to toady, to wheedle (to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour) · to show affection
çekim: geçmiş підле́щувавшись · şimdiki підле́щується
köken: From підле́щувати (pidléščuvaty) + -ся (-sja).
köken: Verbal derivation from מַחְמָאָה (makhma'á), itself derived from Psalms he:T:22, with translation of the New American Standard Bible: "His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war".
to fawn upon · to flatter or court · to make obeisance to
çekim: ortaç adūlātus · şimdiki adūlātur · ulaç adūlāns
köken: The first component is evidently ad- (“to, toward”); the second one, however, has an obscure origin. It has been conjectured to come from an unattested *ūlos (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”), whence English wool (via Proto-Germanic) and velvet (via a Latin diminutive). Compare Lithuanian valai (“horsetail hair”) and Sanskrit वाल (vā́la, “tail of an animal; tail hair;…
çekim: geçmiş afaguei · ortaç afagado · şimdiki afaga
köken: Attested from the 13th century. Probably from Arabic خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa). Cognate with Portuguese afagar, Spanish halagar, Catalan afalagar.
aile: afago
c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 24
Etimoloji
From hízelkedik (“to flatter someone”) + -leg (frequentative verb-forming suffix), from an otherwise unattested stem + -lkedik. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.