aile: affaire de cœur, affairiste, avoir affaire à, faire l'affaire, faire son affaire, hors d'affaire, la belle affaire, lâcher l'affaire, se mêler de ses affaires, s'occuper de ses affaires
broadly, any abstract thing, affair, matter, or fact · act of (word used for the nominalization of verbs, adjectives, or phrases) · experience, having been or done (used with ある (aru, “have, possess”))
köken: From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kətə. Cognate with 言 (koto, “word”).
topic, subject, theme · reason, cause, grounds, justification · motif (recurring or dominant element in a work of art)
çekim: çoğul aiheet · tamlayan aiheen
köken: Probably via metathesis from ajaa (“to drive, pursue”) + -e (*ajeh), "that which spurs or drives on" > "reason". May also be inspired by aie. Another theory proposes a borrowing from an earlier (Pre-Germanic) form of Proto-Germanic *aiz (“copper, bronze”) (like *ajes- → *aješ > *ajeh), but the semantics and distribution make this questionable.
discourse, narrative · a fable, tale, story · a play
çekim: çoğul fābulae · tamlayan fābulae
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti Proto-Italic *fāōr Latin for, fā- Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder. Latin -bula Latin fābula From for, fā- (“to speak, say”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).
aile: fābella, fābulāris, fābulor, fābulōsus, lupus in fābulā
matter: · a kind of substance · printed material, especially in books or magazines
çekim: çoğul materi-materi
köken: Borrowed from Dutch materie, from Middle Dutch materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin māteria (“matter, stuff, material”), from māter (“mother, at least in the sense of 'source'”) + -ia.