köken: Inherited from Old Spanish sotil (“thin; subtle”), inherited from Latin subtīlis. Although the Old Spanish term was inherited, and was often used concretely ("thin, fine"), since the early modern period it has been increasingly relegated to abstract uses. The vowel change o > u may be due either to the following i, or due to the influence of the Latin etymon.
aile: sutileza, sutilmente
La diferencia sutil entre un vocablo y otro juega un papel importante.
köken: Adapted borrowing of Latin subtīlis + -ny. Earlier, as expected, subtylny. The current form is hypercorrect – when the accepted pronunciation of é was changing from y to e, the word was reinterpreted as subtélny, and the new y-less form was reinforced by adjectives in -telny.
fine (particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth) · fine (consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces) · good-looking, fine
çekim: karşılaştırma hienompi · üstünlük hienoin
eş: aistikas, edustava, fiini, huoliteltu, hyvännäköinen, kaunis
zıt: ruma
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hëëno. Cognates include Karelian hieno and Veps hen, as well as probably Estonian hõõnukene. The semantic shift from “fine, slender, fine-grained” to “fine, refined, elegant” is common across European languages and probably represents foreign influence in Finnish.