köken: From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.
köken: Of unknown origin. Possibly from Picard bidoule, berdoule (“mud”). First attested in 1940 as military slang for a mess (in the sense of a dirty or disordered thing).
köken: From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).
distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon · that one we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) · third-person personal pronoun: he, she, that person
köken: From older kare → are. Compound of あ (a, “that, yon”) + れ (-re, nominalizing suffix for demonstratives).
a thing (concrete or abstract – also of events, like in English) · a thing (something that exists, as opposed to not) · thing (subjective liking)
çekim: çoğul grejer · tamlayan grejs
köken: From earlier greja (whence the alternative plural form grejor). Borrowed from Norwegian greie, (dialectal) greida (“arrangement, (pl.) tools”). Derived from Old Norse greiða (“to arrange, comb, pay, perform”). Cognate with Danish grej, Norwegian Bokmål greie, and Norwegian Nynorsk greie.
aile: grejsimojs
Ölburkar och tvättmaskiner är två exempel på grejer.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic тъ (tŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).
object, item, thing (that is physical, concrete, tangible) · artifact (object made or shaped by hand)
çekim: çoğul esineet · tamlayan esineen
köken: esi- (“fore-”) + -ine. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1842. Länsimäki (1989) theorizes that Schildt originally coined the word as esiaine (as a calque of Swedish föremål) and later shortened it to esine. Compare Estonian ese, also an intentional coinage and likely inspired by the Finnish word. According to Häkkinen (2004), Schildt later preferred esile (with -le),…
thing, thingy, whatsit (a placeholder denoting a vague thing, or something whose name is forgotten by the speaker) · thingy, sex organ, genitalia
çekim: çoğul izék
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *atɜ (“thing, object”). Originally izej with the -j noun-forming suffix. Cognates include Mansi ut, Udmurt ot, Finnish asia, Estonian asi.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aquel, from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, a compound of Latin eccum and ille. Cognate with Portuguese aquele and Spanish aquel, among others.
köken: From இ- (i-, proximal marker) + -து (-tu). See Proto-Dravidian *i-tu (“this”). Cognates Cognate with Kannada ಇದು (idu), Malayalam ഇത് (itŭ) and Telugu ఇది (idi).
thing · affair, matter, case, issue, business · concern, business
çekim: çoğul aferoj
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin facio Old French faire Old French afaire French affaireder. ▲ Old French afaireder. Middle English afere English affairder. Esperanto afero From French affaire / English affair, from…
Dum mia vojaĝo mi vidis interesajn aferojn.
"Vi bone scias, Sokrato, ke kiam oni anticipas baldaŭ morti, alarmo trafas onin kaj oni meditas pri aferoj kiujn oni antaŭe ne atentis"