competent (having sufficient skill, knowledge or qualifications) · competent (adequate for the purpose) · competent (having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue)
zıt: incapaz, incompetente
köken: Borrowed from Latin competentem, present participle of competō (“to meet; to coincide; to agree”).
上手い, 巧い: good at something, skillful · 美味い, 旨い, 甘い, 甘美い, 味い, 美い: delicious, tasty · 旨い, 美い: favorable, preferable, good
eş: おいしい, 美味しい, 美味, んまい, うんまい, たくみ
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective うまし (umashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Sometimes reconstructed as…
köken: asian (“(of) a thing”, genitive) + tuntija (“knower, one who knows (well)”). Coined by Finnish journalist, poet and translator Paavo Tikkanen as a calque of Swedish sakkännare.