isn't it so?; right? · a sentence-final ending used when the speaker rhetorically confirms something they already knew, in order to cross-check the information
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Iranian *aśćaHyás Sanskrit अच्छाय (acchāya)? Sanskrit अच्छ (accha) Prakrit अच्छ (accha) Hindi अच्छा Inherited from Prakrit अच्छ (accha) without cluster simplification, from Sanskrit अच्छ (accha). Displaced Hindi आछा (āchā), from the same source. Cognate with Punjabi ਅੱਛਾ (acchā).
very, rather, quite · exactly, precisely, just · completely, totally
köken: From Proto-Finnic *aivan (an instructive singular, compare ihan), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas, or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“long time”). Cognate with Votic aiva (“always”) and Estonian aiva (“always”).
shaft (in a mine; in a building) · mine (an explosive device)
çekim: çoğul aknák
köken: It is attested as Acnahege (*aknahegy) (1197/1337), Akana (1222), akonájá (1621). Ultimately from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *okъno (“window”). The sense ‘explosive device’ came into being by ellipsis of tűzakna (“underground tunnel filled with explosives”, literally “fire shaft”).
spring (source of water) · source (where something comes from) · reference
çekim: çoğul allikad · tamlayan allika
köken: Cognate to Finnish allikko. Possibly from a Baltic language, compare Lithuanian šaltenis (“spring”) and šaltinis (“spring, source, that which is cold”). While the expected initial h- is seen in older Estonian texts, its loss in Finnish is unexplained, possibly due to similar words starting with ala-.
köken: From Middle Welsh kywir, from Proto-Brythonic *köwir, from Proto-Celtic *kouwīros (compare Old Irish cóir), from *kom- + *wīros. Equivalent to cy- + gwir.