correct, right · upright, honest · whole, complete, entire, exact
çekim: karşılaştırma درستتَر · üstünlük درستتَرین
zıt: نادرست
köken: From Middle Persian drw(y)st' (drust, “right; well, healthy”), from Old Persian *dᵘruvišta, from Proto-Iranian *druwištah. Compare Baluchi دْراه (drāh, “well, healthy”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese certo, from Latin certus (“certain”), past participle of cernō (“to sift; to discern”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to move; to separate”).
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
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”).
not (negation, denial, refusal) · not (in a question, expecting a positive answer) · isn’t it so (postponed, turning an affirmative utterance into a question)
eş: ej, ikke sandt?, ikke også?
zıt: vel
köken: From Old Norse ekki (“not”), cognate with Jutish itt, Swedish icke, inte. The neuter of the Old Norse pronoun engi (“nobody, no”), see ingen.
aile: det ved jeg ikke, heller ikke, jeg forstår ikke, slet ikke
right (side, direction) (in bên phải) · correct · obverse
zıt: trái, không đúng, sai, trật
köken: Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 被 (“to suffer; passive marker”, SV: bị) (Old Chinese: /*m-pʰ(r)ajʔ, m-pʰ(r)ajʔ-s, mə-pʰ(r)aj, pʰ(r)aj-s/ in Baxter and Sagart (2014), along the semantic evolution of “to have to endure; to suffer” > “have to; must” > “correct” > “right (in direction)”. It may reflect an Old Chinese pronunciation /*N-pʰ(r)ajʔ-s/ with the loss of a nasal prefix as is also seen…
aile: ba phải, bên phải, mặt phải, phải biết, phải cách, phải chăng, phải đạo, phải đường, phải giá, phải lẽ