•to torture, to torment, to rack, to excruciate (inflict severe physical pain or mental suffering on) · to distress, to harrow, to trouble, to vex, to bedevil (cause worry or anguish to)
çekim: geçmiş hanté · ortaç hanté · şimdiki hante · ulaç hantant
köken: From Middle French hanter, from Old French hanter (“to frequent, abide in one place”), from Old English hāmettan (“to bring home; provide a home for; house”) or/and Old Norse heimta (“to bring home”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjaną (“to bring home, house”). More at haunt.
to tempt (e.g. fate/fortune or someone to do wrong) · to haunt (of a ghost or an outdated idea)
çekim: geçmiş kísértettek
köken: kísér (“to accompany”, [obsolete] “to follow, track, pursue”) + -t (causative or instantaneous suffix). Its meaning probably developed from the obsolete meaning of kísér by narrowing its meaning “to lead, guide”, then “to misguide, seduce, tempt”.