synonym of lauwarm (“lukewarm, tepid”) · mild; especially in the sense that it is pleasantly cool after a period of heat · cushy, easy
çekim: karşılaştırma lauer · üstünlük am lauesten
eş: lauwarm, mild, temperiert
köken: From Middle High German lā (inflected lāwe), from Old High German lāo, from Proto-West Germanic *hlāu, from Proto-Germanic *hlēwaz. Cognate with Dutch lauw. Also related to English lukewarm.
aile: für lau, sich einen lauen Lenz machen, to ride the gravy train, lauer Lenz
köken: Possibly through Middle Dutch vlau (“limp, weak”) from Old French flou; see further at French flou. If so, a doublet of Dutch flou. Compare with the Walloon flåwe (weak).
Hij haalt soms de flauwste grappen uit! - He pulls the lamest pranks sometimes!
köken: From Proto-Finnic *halëda (compare Estonian hale, Ingrian haalia), derived from *haljas (whence haljas) by replacing the apparent suffix *-(j)as with *-ëda (-ea). The sense “tepid, lukewarm” developed from the original sense “faded, pale” in Finnish.
köken: From Old Danish ljunken, from Old Norse *ljumka, *lumka (“to warm”), from Proto-Germanic *hlēwanōną (“to make warm”), *hleumaz, *hlūmaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱel(w)e-, *k(')lēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Old Swedish lionkin (“lukewarm”), Old Swedish liumber (“warm, mild, tepid”), Swedish dialectal lumma (“to be hot”), Old Saxon halōian (“to burn”). See lukewarm.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tep- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh₁yeti Proto-Italic *tepēō Latin tepeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tepidus Old Catalan tebi Catalan tebi Inherited from Old Catalan tebi, from Latin tepidus. Cognate with French tiède, Occitan tèbi, and…
From the otherwise unattested *lagymad (“to become warmer, softer”) + -atag (adjective-forming suffix) also found in avatag, hervatag, korhatag. Ultimately, from lágy (“soft”).