firm; compact; hard · firm; fixed; rigid · firm; steadfast
çekim: karşılaştırma fester · üstünlük am festesten
eş: Feier, Festivität, Festlichkeit, Fete, Party
köken: From Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see there for cognates and further etymology.
aile: fest-, -fest
Ein One-Night-Stand ist mir genug, ich möchte gerade noch nichts Festes.
fester Freund
Man muss schon ein fester Trottel sein, um auf so etwas hereinzufallen.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish firme, inherited from Vulgar Latin *fīrmis, from Latin firmus, from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). The preservation of initial /f/ is irregular, but Coromines & Pascual reject the possibility of the word being a borrowing.
aile: a pie firme, de firme, en firme, firmemente, mantenerse firme, sentencia firme, tierra firme
köken: From Old East Slavic твьрдъ (tvĭrdŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *twírˀtas, from Proto-Indo-European *twerH-. Doublet of кварц (kvarc).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese firme, from Vulgar Latin firmis, from Latin firmus, from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”).
hard · hard (high in dissolved calcium compounds) · tough
çekim: karşılaştırma twardszy · üstünlük najtwardszy
eş: trudny, uciążliwy, ciężki, przykry
zıt: miękki
köken: Inherited from Old Polish twardy, from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *twírtas, from Proto-Indo-European *twerH-. Doublet of kwarc and kwarzec.
aile: twardy znak
Diamenty są bardzo twarde.
Moje łóżko jest bardzo twarde.
Boli mnie ząb, więc nie mogę jeść twardego jedzenia.
solid, firm, rigid (in the solid state; having at least a somewhat unyielding texture or structure, tangible but difficult or impossible to change the shape of) · fixed (not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same) · inseparable, essential, important
çekim: karşılaştırma kiinteämpi · üstünlük kiintein
zıt: irtain
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kintedä (compare Estonian kindel, Ingrian kiintiä, Ludian kińďed), from the same root as kiinni (“attached, fixed”) with the adjectival suffix -eä.
aile: kiinnetä, kiinteistö, kiinteys, kiinteyttää, kiinteytyä, kiinteä aine, kiinteä faasi, kiinteä juhla, kiinteästi, kiintiö
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰermos Proto-Italic *θermos Proto-Italic *fermos Latin firmus From Proto-Italic *fermos, from earlier *θermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”) (whence also Sanskrit धर्म (dharma)), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”) (whence also ferē and fermē). Cognate with Sanskrit धरति (dhárati), Old Persian…
firm, strong, rigid (capable of resisting the actions of mechanical forces without harm or change) · firm, strong, sturdy (having much strength; physically well developed, not weak, not brittle) · firm, strong (done, happening with energy, strength; affecting (something else) strongly)
çekim: karşılaştırma stingrāks · üstünlük visstingrākais
eş: spēcīgs, stiprs
köken: From the same stem as the verb stingt (“to harden, to stiffen”) (q.v.), with an extra (adjectivizing?) r. A parallel form without the r yielded stings (“stiff, numb”). Cognates include Lithuanian stiñgras (“firm, strict”), stingrùs, sti̇̀ngrus (“rigid, stiff, numb; hard, solid; strained; heavy”). The verb stiñgt (“to stiffen”) is cognate with Lithuanian sti̇̀ngti (“id.”). According to Karulis,…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰermos Proto-Italic *θermos Proto-Italic *fermos Latin firmusbor. Esperanto firma Borrowed from Latin firmus.