to play truant, to play hooky, to skip class, to ditch, to bunk, to mitch
köken: Literally, “make school (hidden) in bushes”. Where the idiom comes from is quite unclear. * It could be related to buissonner (verb), and metaphorically going on an adventure in the forest among shrubs and bushes instead of attending school. * According to Swiss philologist and lexicographer Walther von Wartburg, the idiom is related to Martin Luther and Lutheranism. In the 16th century, Lutheran…
çekim: geçmiş پرید · ortaç پریده · şimdiki میپرد · ulaç پرنده
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭯𐭫𐭣𐭭𐭠 (pldn' /parrīdan/, “fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump”). Cognates with Northern Kurdish firîn, Central Kurdish فْڕین (firrîn), Zazaki perayen, Baluchi پرگ (parrag, “to fly away, jump off”). Other Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit प्रवते (pravate, “to jump”), Russian прыгать (prygatʹ), English frolic, and German fröhlich. False cognate of Tamil பற…
köken: From *sekir- (“to jump”), from Proto-Turkic *sēk- (“to jump”). Cognate with Kazakh секіру (sekıru), Kyrgyz секирүү (sekirüü), Uzbek sakramoq (“to jump”), Yakut эккирээ (ekkiree, “to jump on the spot”), etc.
çekim: geçmiş hypännyt · şimdiki hyppää · ulaç hyppäävä
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hüp'äit'äk, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *huppōną, *huppijaną (“to move up and down; hop”), compare German hüpfen (“to hop”). Compare also Erzya чопавтомс (čopavtoms, “to dive”).