köken: A dialectal word that spread supraregionally during the 20th century. It has not been established in the etymological literature which dialects are at the origin, but they seem to be those of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia. The Rheinisches Wörterbuch (20th century) stated that the word was common throughout Ripuarian and Low Franconian, but had only begun to spread to Moselle Franconian. The…
aile: Modefimmel, Putzfimmel
Yoga-Fimmel
Und schießen sie –: du lieber Himmel, / schätzt ihr das Leben so hoch ein? / Das ist ein Pazifisten-Fimmel!
köken: 16th century, borrowed from German Grille (“caprice; cricket”), from Middle High German grille (“cricket”). The sense is now dated in German, but remains common in Dutch.
Zal ik jou ooit begrijpen / Ik zou het niet willen / Ik hou van je grillen / Jij maakt dat ik nooit een dag niet heb geleefd.
shortcoming, imperfection, deficiency · malfunction · any disadvantage
çekim: çoğul ελαττώματα · tamlayan ελαττώματος
eş: κουσούρι, μειονέκτημα, ντεφό or ντεφώ
zıt: προτέρημα, πλεονέκτημα, αβαντάζ
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλάττωμα (eláttōma), from ἐλασσόω (elassóō), from ἐλάσσων (elássōn), comparative of μικρός (mikrós, “small, insignificant”).
köken: Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi-tyo- (“apart, wrong”), a derivative of the number *dwóh₁ (“two”)., or Proto-Indo-European *wí (“separate from, both, two”).