engine (mechanical device or part of a car) · engine (software or hardware system responsible for a specific task) · motorcycle (Classifier: 臺／台 h)
eş: 摩托車, 摩托車, 電驢子, 屁驢子, 機車, 機器腳踏車
köken: Phono-semantic matching of English engine. First entered Chinese through Shanghainese. Entered Taiwanese Hakka and Hokkien via Japanese エンジン (enjin).
motive (anything that prompts a choice of action) · motive (a reason for criminal behaviour) · recital (a numbered division unit of reasoning written in front of a statute)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin motivuslbor. Polish motyw Learned borrowing from Latin motivus.
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.
köken: From Malay enjin, from English engine, from Anglo-Norman engine, from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium. Doublet of insinyur, genius, and zeni.