to listen up · to stop; to quit; to cease · to stop talking about something
çekim: geçmiş hörte auf · ortaç aufgehört · şimdiki hört auf · ulaç aufhörend
eş: ablassen, abbrechen, beenden, anhalten, enden
köken: From Middle High German ūfhœren (“to stop”), equivalent to auf- (“up”) + hören (“to hear, listen, obey”). The sense is explained as a generalisation from “to obey a prohibition and desist”. Cognate with archaic Dutch ophoren, Yiddish אויפֿהערן (oyfhern), and Bavarian aufhearn. Compare also aufhorchen, preserving a more literal meaning.
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 그치〮다〮 (Yale: kùchí-tá), originally the causative with -이- (-i-) of the intransitive verb 긏다〮 (Yale: kùch-tá, “to come to a stop”). The causative later replaced the original verb.
to finish (to come to an end), to end (quick and abrupt; does not emphasize the process of ending, more abrupt than ukončit) · to end up (to arrive at a destination, sometimes unexpectedly)
çekim: geçmiş skončivše · ortaç skončila · şimdiki skončí
to stop, to cease, to quit, to discontinue (to interrupt, stop, or finish an activity or state) · to end, to stop, to cease, to vanish (of events, states, or phenomena: to reach completion or cease to exist)
çekim: geçmiş prestal som · ortaç prestavší · şimdiki prestali by sme
zıt: začať, nastať, vypuknúť
köken: Etymology tree Slovak pre- Slovak stať Slovak prestať From pre- + stať.
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From an earlier cunteni, generally assumed to be from Latin continēre (and if so, a doublet of conține). However, this is somewhat problematic as it deviates from the usual change of Latin con- into Romanian cu (preserving the n), and tenere into ține (therefore the expected result would have been a *cuține or *cuținea), but other exceptions also exist. Nonetheless, it appears in texts as far…