çekim: geçmiş bedauerte · ortaç bedauert · şimdiki bedauert · ulaç bedauernd
köken: From Middle High German betūren (also betiuren), a prefixation of tūren (“to consider grave”). Equivalent to modern be- + dauern (etymology 2), the simplex of which is now archaic. Pertaining to teuer (“dear, expensive”). The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dūren).
to regret · to miss; to wish something had not happened or occurred
çekim: geçmiş regretté · ortaç regretté · şimdiki regrette · ulaç regrettant
eş: déplorer
köken: Inherited from Middle French regretter, regreter, from Old French regreter (“to lament”), from re- (“intensive prefix”) + greter (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”) and Frankish *greotan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrew- (“to weep, be sad”). Akin to Old High German…
Je regrette de t'avoir parlé ainsi tout à l'heure.
köken: From Byzantine Greek μετανιώνω (metaniṓnō), from a blend of earlier μεταγνώνω (metagnṓnō), μεταγνώθω (metagnṓthō) + νιώθω (niótho, “to feel”), the former from Ancient Greek μεταγιγνώσκω (metagignṓskō, “to change one's mind, repent”). A less likely theory derives the word directly from Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia, “afterthought, repentance”) + -ώνω (-óno).
to regret, to feel regret (за + instrumental, про + accusative, що + clause) · to feel sorry for, to pity, to feel pity for · to save, to spare (:energy, life, money, resource)
çekim: geçmiş жалкува́вши · şimdiki жалку́є
köken: Possibly from жа́лко (žálko) + -ува́ти (-uváty).
çekim: geçmiş litovala · ortaç litovala · şimdiki lituje
eş: soucítit
köken: Inherited from Old Czech ľutovati (“to be angry, to rage; to be sorry”), from Proto-Slavic *ľutovati, from *ľutъ. By surface analysis, lítý + -ovat. The change of the original meaning of lítý (“ferocious”) to feeling sorry may have been influenced by the phrase Je mi líto. ("I am sorry.") whose today's meaning may have originated in "I feel bad/poignant.".
From a- + Old Galician-Portuguese repender, repeender, from Early Medieval Latin repoenitēre, from Latin paenitēre. Suffixation perhaps to avoid confusion with the unrelated Portuguese pender (“hang”). Compare Galician arrepender, Spanish arrepentirse.