to console, to comfort, to support someone (emotionally)
çekim: geçmiş tröstete · ortaç getröstet · şimdiki tröstet · ulaç tröstend
köken: From Middle High German trœsten, from Old High German trōsten, from Proto-West Germanic *traustijan, from Proto-Germanic *traustijaną. By surface analysis, Trost + -en.
to comfort, console (relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to)
çekim: geçmiş lohduttanut · şimdiki lohduttaisi · ulaç lohduttava
köken: Uncertain. Possibly a causative derivative of the dialectal verb lohtua (“to come off, melt off, thaw off”) (Kymenlaakso), thus “to chip off”, from which “to comfort” through figurative, possibly religious, use. Alternatively labialized from lahduttaa, in turn a variant of lauhduttaa. The former could be motivated by the word being present in the local dialects around Pernaja, the original…
to speak to, address; salute, greet · to exhort, rouse; console, comfort · to appeal to the gods in thanksgiving and prayer
çekim: ortaç allocūtus · şimdiki alloquitur · ulaç alloquēns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin loquor Latin alloquor From ad- (“to, towards”) + loquor (“to say, speak”).