(of foods, flavors, scents, etc.) to sweeten · (of any unpleasant thing) to make (more) agreeable, pleasant, mild, delicate, etc. · (of something physically rough or coarse) to soften, to smooth
çekim: geçmiş adouci · ortaç adouci · şimdiki adoucit · ulaç adoucissant
eş: doucir
köken: Inherited from Old French adoucir, adolcir, from dolz, douz (“sweet”), from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). By surface analysis, a- + doux + -ir.
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!
overwhelmingly thorough (often in a positive way); excessive, repetitive (in a negative way) · pushy, bossy, overly particular and demanding · excellent of technique (particularly for a performance)
köken: Probably originally a compound of 心 (uru, “heart, mind”, vowel-shifted from regular reading ura, cognate with 裏 (ura, “the behind or inside of something”)) + 狭し (sashi, “tight; narrow”, Classical and Old Japanese, cognate and synonym of modern 狭い (semai)), from the sense that something is so overwhelming that one feels pressured to yield or submit in some way. The earliest texts used this word to…
weak, delicate (unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain) · weak, feeble, frail, faint (lacking in force, strength or ability) · weak, slight, meager (lacking in taste, potency or severity)
çekim: karşılaştırma heikompi · üstünlük heikoin
zıt: vahva, tukeva, luja, vankka, kova, terve
köken: Unknown. Related to Ingrian heikko, Kukkuzi heikko and probably Veps heikembāńe (“weaker”) (South Veps), although such a word is barely attested. Compare also dialectal Estonian äigima (“to die down, subside, weaken”), dialectal Võro heik (“vain”).
çekim: karşılaştırma chromější · üstünlük nejchromější
köken: Inherited from Old Czech chromý, from Proto-Slavic *xromъ (“lame”). Cognate with Slovak chromý, Polish chromy, Old Church Slavonic хромъ (xromŭ), and Russian хромо́й (xromój).
köken: From some extension of *kelh₂- (“to strike, cut”), leading to derivatives meaning "broken or cut off," see also Russian колдыка (koldyka, “lame”) and Ancient Greek κολοβός (kolobós, “curtailed, broken”); the root is also the ultimate source of English halt.
aile: claudaster, claudeō, claudicō, claudīgō, clauditās, Claudius
köken: From Old Norse flatr, from Proto-Germanic *flataz, cognate with English flat. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”), cf. Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús) (whence, via Latin, Danish plat and plads).
Jeg stak ham en flad.
Etimoloji
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chato, from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”). Doublet of prato and plati-.