solitary, alone (living alone or being by oneself)
çekim: çoğul solitaires
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin sōlitārius. In Middle and Old French there existed the words soltain, soutain, inherited from Vulgar Latin *sōlitānus, from Late Latin sōlitāneus.
köken: From Old Japanese. First attested as sabusi in the Man'yōshū, completed sometime around 759 CE. Generally thought to derive from 荒ぶ (sabu, “to be desolate, to be lonely”), modern 錆びる (sabiru, “to rust, to get old”, intransitive). In early modern times, some dialects shift in reading from /-b-/ to /-m-/, thus creating samishii; similar to 頭 (tsuburi, tsumuri, “head”), in which tsuburi changes to…