köken: Cognate with Kazakh жігерлі (jıgerlı, “active, vigorous”), Kyrgyz жигердүү (jigerdüü, “brave, valiant; active”). Ultimately derived from Persian جگر (jegar) in the sense of "spirit, courage".
çekim: karşılaştırma flitigare · üstünlük flitigast
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish fliteliker, from Middle Low German vlītich. By surface analysis, flit + -ig. Cognate of Danish flittig. Compare Dutch vlijtig, German fleißig.
köken: Uncertain. Traditionally connected with dialectal ahku (“eagerness, zeal”), but this word is likewise of unknown origin. According to Häkkinen (2004), which follows Nikkilä (1998), perhaps a borrowing from dialectal Swedish ager (“hard-working”), but this sense for the word, supposedly found only in dialects within Finland, does not seem to have a particularly wide distribution nor even be the…
köken: Probably from indu (“in, within”), archaic variation of in, + struō (“build”). Sometimes connected to Old High German ustrī (“industry”), Old English and-ūstrian (“to hate, detest”).
diligent, zealous, hard-working (who insists on trying to do, to obtain something) · diligent, zealous, hard-working (which expresses the desire to keep trying to do, to obtain something)
çekim: karşılaştırma centīgāks · üstünlük viscentīgākais
köken: From censt(ies) (“to try”) + -īgs. The standard stem for this verb has š (es cenšos, “I try”), but dialectally also t (es centos), which explains why there are derived forms with t, like centīgs, centība (“zeal”), and with s, like censonis (“striver, fighter, assiduous person”) or sacensība (“competition”) (and also, colloquially, censīgs, censība).
centīgs cilvēks, strādnieks, skolēns
centīgs gars ir latvju tautai
lapa bija aprakstīta ar centīgu, nelīdzenu rokrakstu