köken: Inherited from Middle French cher, from Old French cher, chier, from Latin cārum (“dear, valuable”), from Proto-Italic *kāros, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros, from *keh₂- (“to desire, to wish”).
aile: c'est un ici, là-bas
Quoi il y a, cher?
Tu connais moi j'ai du r'gret / J'ai du r'gret pour tout ça moi j't'ai fait / Pardonne-moi, viens-toi donc à la maison, chère
köken: From Old Swedish kær, from Old Norse kærr, from Old Northern French ker, kier, quer (Old French chier, cher), from Latin cārus (“dear”), from Proto-Italic *kāros, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, to wish”). Doublet of hora.
dear, expensive (high in price; costing much money) · expensive (e.g. of a person, offering e.g. a service for a high price) · expensive (requiring much resources)
çekim: karşılaştırma droższy · üstünlük najdroższy
eş: kosztowny, bliski
zıt: tani
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *dargás Proto-Slavic *dȏrgъ Old Polish drogi Polish drogi Inherited from Old Polish drogi.
aile: drogocenny, za drogie pieniądze, drogie kamienie, drożyzna, drożeć
expensive (having a high price or cost) · precious, valuable (of high value or worth) · costly (requiring great sacrifice, having grave consequences)
çekim: karşılaştırma drágább · üstünlük legdrágább
zıt: olcsó
köken: Borrowed from a South Slavic or a West Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian, Slovene drag; Czech, Slovak drahý; Polish drogi (“expensive, dear”), from Proto-Slavic *dorgъ. Hungarian most likely borrowed the feminine form of the Slavic adjective.
expensive, costly · used as a word of endearment; dear, darling, beloved, sweetheart
çekim: karşılaştırma brangiaũ · üstünlük brangiáusia
köken: Related to bri̇̀ngti (“to become expensive”). Further etymology unclear: * Possibly related to bri̇̀nkti (“to swell”). * Possibly from Germanic, cf. German Prunk (“magnificence”), prangen (“to resplend”). Latvian brañgs (“magnificent”) is often associated, but is formally incompatible, suggesting the Latvian is a borrowing from Lithuanian or another language.
expensive, costly (having a high price, for which one must pay very much) · expensive, costly (which takes a lot of money for its services, realization, maintenance) · dear, important, valuable, precious (having great significance, high value; being difficult to find)
çekim: karşılaştırma dārgāks · üstünlük visdārgākais
eş: bagāts, vērtīgs
zıt: lēts, nabags
köken: There are differing suggestions on the origin of this term, the most likely of which is to derive it from Proto-Indo-European *der-, *dor- (“to tear, to peel, to pluck, to slice”) (whence also dergties (“to feel disgusted”), q.v.), with an extra gʰ, from which Proto-Baltic *darg- > *dargs > dārgs (with lengthening from the intonation on -àr- > -ā̀r). The original meaning could have been “which…