to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) · to cajole · to humour (person)
çekim: geçmiş amadoué · ortaç amadoué · şimdiki amadoue · ulaç amadouant
köken: Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at…
çekim: geçmiş alınmış · ortaç alınmış · şimdiki alınır
köken: almaq (“to buy”) + -ın (“[passive suffix]”). The sense 'to succeed, to work out' is likely a semantic loan from Russian получи́ться (polučítʹsja)/получа́ться (polučátʹsja).
to carefully twist, bend, etc., (something) to accomplish something, with fiddly connotations; to coax · to carefully manipulate (someone or something, with good or bad intentions); to coax
çekim: geçmiş lirkade · ortaç lirkande · ulaç lirkande
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish *liþka (compare Icelandic liðka), derived from Old Norse liðr (“member”). For the shift from -dk- to -rk- compare with burk. Doublet of led.
En räv hade fastnat i ett stängsel, men de lyckades lirka loss den efter en timme
Han lyckades lirka upp låset med gaffeln
Vi fick lirka lite, men till slut gick han med på våra krav
to manage to do something, to succeed (to overcome a difficulty or to solve a problem) · to defeat, to beat (to achieve victory over someone or something in a fight, game, or competition)
çekim: geçmiş maanitellut · şimdiki maanittelee · ulaç maanitteleva
köken: From dialectal maanittaa + -ella, in turn from maania; the root being borrowed from Russian манить (manitʹ). Formally equivalent to Karelian muanittua, Veps manitelda.
to succeed in doing something, manage · to succeed (turn out as desired)
çekim: geçmiş reușit · ortaç reușit · şimdiki reușește
zıt: eșua
köken: Borrowed from French réussir, Italian riuscire. First attested in the 1840s.
aile: reușire, reușit, reușită
Am reușit să ajung acasă.
A reușit să termine primul.
Ți-a reușit să rezolvi problema?
Macarcakövet, sikeressé tesz, sikerre visz, sikerül /ˈkøvɛt/
to follow (to go or come after in physical space) · to follow (to subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform) · to claim, demand
çekim: geçmiş követtek
zıt: vezet, otthagy
köken: From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kijɜ- or *küjɜ- (“to follow, pursue”), with -t (instantaneous suffix). The social media sense is a semantic loan from English follow.
to act, to behave · to do · to make (something that does not continue to exist after the maker stops)
çekim: ortaç āctus · şimdiki agit · ulaç agēns
eş: colloquor, disserō
zıt: cōnsōlor
köken: From Proto-Italic *agō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, from the root *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Cognate with Old Irish aigid, Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”), Old Norse aka (“move, drive”), Avestan 𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (azaⁱti), Sanskrit अजति (ájati, “to drive, propel, cast”).
to soothe or appease (a crying or tantrum-throwing baby)
köken: The phonetic elements in the Nôm characters used to write this word (杜 (MC duX), 徒 (MC du)) as well as the modern North Central form thỗ/thổ point to earlier form with *-d-. This word is unrelated to 誘 (MC yuwX) (SV: dụ), although the character appeared in latter Nôm texts as sound changes in the mainstream dialects caused the two to become similar enough for 誘 to be used as a phonetic element.