white

en-adj

white (comparative whiter or more white, superlative whitest or most white)

whiter (comparative)
more white (comparative)
whitest (superlative)
most white (superlative)
whight (alternative)
whyte (alternative)
whyght (alternative)
White (alternative)

Bislama: waet

Sranan Tongo: weti

Aukan: weti

Saramaccan: wéti

Tok Pisin: wait

→ Japanese: ホワイト (howaito)

white fella

⇒ Nyunga: wadjela

white gin

⇒ Gamilaraay: waatyin

⇒ Ngiyambaa: wadjiin

⇒ Wiradjuri: waajin

Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
Cognates
* West Frisian wyt
*Dutch wit
* German weiß
* German weiss
* Norwegian Bokmål hvit
* Norwegian Nynorsk kvit
* Lithuanian šviẽsti (“to gleam”), šviesa (“light”)
* Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”), свѣтьлъ (světĭlŭ, “clear, bright”)
* Persian سفید (sefid, “white”), Persian سپید (sepid, “white”)
* Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)
* Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”).

cog

The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.

(board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

hvid

board games: deemed to belong to the white set


white

en-noun

white (countable and uncountable, plural whites)

whites (plural)
whight (alternative)
whyte (alternative)
whyght (alternative)
White (alternative)

bělásek

common name for butterflies in the subfamily Pierinae

(countable) Any object or substance that is of the color white.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.

In this position, white has an opportunity to make a good move.

(board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.

valkoinen

board games: person playing with the white pieces


yellow

yellows (plural)
yeallow (alternative)
yeller (alternative)

red

antonym(s) of “intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights”

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

cog

(snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

(pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).


third

en-noun

third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.

The play ended with Jones standing on third.


tempo

Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”). Doublet of tense.
(truck or cargo van): A genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH.

(chess) A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.

(bridge) The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.

темпо

bridge: timing advantage of being on lead

(American football) A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.


tempo

Borrowed from Italian tempo. Doublet of tiempo.


tempo

tempo (indefinite nominative singular)
tempos (genitive indefinite singular)
tempot (definite nominative singular)
tempots (definite genitive singular)
tempon (indefinite nominative plural)
tempons (genitive indefinite plural)
tempona (definite nominative plural)
temponas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”).


king

kings (plural)
kyng (alternative)
kynge (alternative)
kinge (alternative)

Tok Pisin: king

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: K@Shoulder K@Abdomen

→ Burmese: ကင် (kang)

→ Isubu: kinge

→ Japanese: キング (kingu)

→ Korean: 킹 (king)

→ Maori: kingi

→ Marshallese: kiin̄

→ Thai: คิง (king)

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez.
Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
The verb is inherited from Middle English kyngen, *kingen (“To perform the duties of a king”), itself from the noun king, kyng.

Audio — the king

акрал

a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

(chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.

(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.

heer

a playing card with the image of a king in it


queen

queens (plural)
queene (alternative)
quene (alternative)
queyne (alternative)

Tok Pisin: kwin

⇒ American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown

→ Burmese: ကွင်း (kwang:)

→ German: Queen

→ Japanese: クイーン (kuīn), クィーン (kwīn)

→ Korean: 퀸 (kwin)

→ Marshallese: kwiin

→ Sikaiana: kuini

→ Spanish: cuina

→ Thai: ควีน (kwiin)

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

gloss

"wife"; > Middle Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="gml">quene</i> (“elderly woman”)

cog

Holonym: chess set

For this cauſe that when he [the pawn] can procede so well in warre, as to arriue at the laſte rancke of hys enemies, he is choſen and made the beſt piece of the playe, to wit, he is the Quene.

1562, Damiano da Odemira, translated by Iames Rowbothum, The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts Renewed, with Instructions Both to Learne It Easely, and to Play It Well, London, page A7v:

And, further, let us ſuppoſe, that your King is at Liberty to attack his Pawns upon one Side of the Board, by reckoning how many moves it will take your King to march and take thoſe two Pawns, and alſo, by adding the Number of Moves, which will be neceſſary for you to make a Queen with one of your Pawns: You will, by this Method, find out the exact number of Moves, before you can make a Queen.

1761, Edmond Hoyle, An Essay Towards Making the Game of Chess Easily Learned, London, retrieved 2022-01-13, page 51:

Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:

(chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Holonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards

There is 5. trumps beside the Queene, yᵉ hindmost yᵘ shalt finde her

Just remember that a nine or ten on the flop may trap you against the early raiser if he’s holding a big pair, or if he catches an ace or king or queen — or even a jack — on a later round.

2003, Lou Krieger, Kathleen Keller Watterson, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: ConJelCo, →ISBN, pages 84–85:

(card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.


queen

en-verb

queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)

queens (present singular third-person)
queening (participle present)
queened (participle past)
queened (past)
queene (alternative)
quene (alternative)
queyne (alternative)

Neither King will be able to stop the opponent's pawns from queening, when the game should be a draw. In such cases, which side queens first, or queens with check, can make a crucial difference. In this case, White promotes his pawn first and is able to put this advantage to good use.

2003, Yasser Seirawan, Winning Chess Endings, London: Everyman Chess, →ISBN, page 39:


see

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

sees (present singular third-person)
seeing (participle present)
saw (past)
seen (dialectal past)
seent (dialectal past)
seed (dialectal past)
seen (participle past)
seent (dialectal participle past)
seed (dialectal participle past)
saw (dialectal participle past)
see (infinitive)

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).

der

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

that which has been seen cannot be unseen

there are none so blind as those who will not see

there's none so blind as those who will not see

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.

(gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.


midnight

en-noun

midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)

[ˈmɪd̚ˌnɐɪt]

From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).

cog

(dice games) Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”)


nickel

en-noun

nickel (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)

Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.

that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee

that and a nickel will get you on the subway

you pays your nickel and you takes your chances

you pays your nickel and you takes your choice

(American football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.


pit

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.

he who digs a pit for others falls in himself

(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

The ball carrier can be with or without a football. For the “Head-On” tackle have the “Ball Carrier” stand right in front of the pit and face the tackler.

2007, Bob Swope, Youth Football Drills and Plays Handbook, page 29:

“They don't call the middle of the line The Pit for nothing. We really do get like animals, trying to claw one another apart in there. It is very hard in The Pit. No matter how it seems, no matter what the score shows, it's always hard. […]

2018, Paul Zimmerman, The New Thinking Man's Guide to Professional Football:

(American football) The center of the line.


square

→ Welsh: sgwâr

From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced Old English fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").

An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.

(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.


square

en-adj

square (comparative squarer, superlative squarest)

squarer (comparative)
squarest (superlative)

(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.

cricket: in line with batsman's popping crease

samansuuntainen lyöjän lyöntialueen viivan kanssa


square

en-verb

square (third-person singular simple present squares, present participle squaring, simple past and past participle squared)

squares (present singular third-person)
squaring (participle present)
squared (participle past)
squared (past)

подравнявам

to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle

jalustaa poikittain

nautical: to place at right angles with the keel

First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.

2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

syöttää poikittain

soccer: to make a short low pass sideways across the pitch


fifty

fifties (plural)
fiftie (alternative)
fitty (alternative)
fiddy (alternative)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).

inh

(cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.


hundred

hundreds (plural)
C (alternative)
hecto- (alternative)

/ˈhʌnd͡ʒəɹd/

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

He made a hundred in the historic match.

(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferred use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

(card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.

(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.

(cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.


jack

The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?

2001 October 8, Ray Dames, “Re: McGwire's Year”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.

2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and...

2004 January 18, Terrell Miller, “Re: Does playing for the 3-run home run really help you win championships?”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):


jack

en-verb

jack (third-person singular simple present jacks, present participle jacking, simple past and past participle jacked)

jacks (present singular third-person)
jacking (participle present)
jacked (participle past)
jacked (past)

An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun.

1986, Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, volume 4, Sport Literature Association:

Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.

2004, Wayne Stewart, Hitting Secrets of the Pros: Big League Sluggers Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 90:

Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.

a. 2009, Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball, Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), page 107

(transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.


league

en-noun

league (countable and uncountable, plural leagues)

→ Japanese: リーグ (rīgu)

→ Korean: 리그 (rigeu)

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).

Are you going to watch the league tonight?

(informal, rugby, uncountable) Ellipsis of rugby league.


deuce

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford to describe a model of car they made in 1932 due to it being a two-seater.

You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter:

(card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

(dice games) A side of a die with two spots.

(dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.

(tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.

iguals

tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points


knight

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

inh

(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.


knight

en-verb

knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)

knights (present singular third-person)
knighting (participle present)
knighted (participle past)
knighted (past)

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

(chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.


five hundred

en-noun

five hundred (countable and uncountable, plural five hundreds)

(uncountable, card games) A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.


cock

cock (countable and uncountable, plural cocks)

Sranan Tongo: kaka

Tok Pisin: kok

→ Thai: ก๊อก (gɔ́k, “tap”)

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

gloss

(curling) The circle at the end of the rink.


tick

From Middle English *tik, tek, tyche (“light touch, tap”), from the verb (see Etymology 3 below). Compare Dutch tik (“a pat, tap”), Middle High German zic (“a slight touch”).

cog

(gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.


hand

From Middle English hond, hand, from Old English hand, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.
See also Dutch and Swedish hand (“hand”), Danish hånd, German Hand, West Frisian hân). Perhaps compare Old Swedish hinna (“to gain”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰-𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (fra-hinþan, “to take captive, capture”); and Latvian sīts (“hunting spear”), Ancient Greek κεντέω (kentéō, “prick”), Albanian çandër (“pitchfork, prop”).

handvol

that which is, or may be, held in a hand at once

hand

set of cards held by a player in a card game

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

catch someone with a hand in the cookie jar

close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

give with one hand and take away with the other

one can't hold two watermelons in one hand

talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening

the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.

(card games) The set of cards held by a player.


hand

hand (indefinite nominative singular)
hands (genitive indefinite singular)
handen (definite nominative singular)
handens (definite genitive singular)
händer (indefinite nominative plural)
händers (genitive indefinite plural)
händerna (definite nominative plural)
händren (definite nominative plural)
händernas (definite genitive plural)
händrens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish hand, from Old Norse hǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *handuz. Cognate with Danish hånd, Norwegian hand, English hand and German Hand.

Hon fick en bra hand, och satsade högt

She was dealt a good hand, and placed a high bet

(card games) a hand (set of cards held by a player)


coin

en-noun

coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)

desc

→ Cantonese: coins (kon¹ si²) (from the plural noun form)

→ Japanese: コイン (koin)

From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.

der

(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

kolikko

one of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit


at

az-noun

at (definite accusative atı, plural atlar)

atı (accusative definite)
atlar (plural)
atım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
atlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
atın (nominative possessive second-person singular)
atların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
atı (nominative possessive singular third-person)
atları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
atımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
atlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
atınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
atlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
atı (nominative plural possessive third-person)
atları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
atımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
atlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
atını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
atlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
atını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
atlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
atımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
atlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
atınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
atlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
atını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
atlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
atıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
atlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
atına (dative possessive second-person singular)
atlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
atına (dative possessive singular third-person)
atlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
atımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
atlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
atınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
atlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
atına (dative plural possessive third-person)
atlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
atımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
atlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
atında (locative possessive second-person singular)
atlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
atında (locative possessive singular third-person)
atlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
atımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
atlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
atınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
atlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
atında (locative plural possessive third-person)
atlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
atımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
atlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
atından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
atlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
atından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
atlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
atımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
atlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
atınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
atlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
atından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
atlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
atımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
atlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
atının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
atlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
atının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
atlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
atımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
atlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
atınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
atlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
atının (genitive plural possessive third-person)
atlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


at

atı (accusative definite)
atlar (plural)
at (nominative singular)
atlar (nominative plural)
atı (accusative definite singular)
atları (accusative definite plural)
ata (dative singular)
atlara (dative plural)
atta (locative singular)
atlarda (locative plural)
attan (ablative singular)
atlardan (ablative plural)
atın (genitive singular)
atların (genitive plural)
atım (first-person nominative singular)
atlarım (first-person nominative singular)
atın (nominative second-person singular)
atların (nominative second-person singular)
atı (nominative singular third-person)
atları (nominative singular third-person)
atımız (first-person nominative plural)
atlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
atınız (nominative plural second-person)
atlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
atları (nominative plural third-person)
atımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
atlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
atını (accusative definite second-person singular)
atlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
atını (accusative definite singular third-person)
atlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
atımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
atlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
atınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
atlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
atlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
atıma (dative first-person singular)
atlarıma (dative first-person singular)
atına (dative second-person singular)
atlarına (dative second-person singular)
atına (dative singular third-person)
atlarına (dative singular third-person)
atımıza (dative first-person plural)
atlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
atınıza (dative plural second-person)
atlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
atlarına (dative plural third-person)
atımda (first-person locative singular)
atlarımda (first-person locative singular)
atında (locative second-person singular)
atlarında (locative second-person singular)
atında (locative singular third-person)
atlarında (locative singular third-person)
atımızda (first-person locative plural)
atlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
atınızda (locative plural second-person)
atlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
atlarında (locative plural third-person)
atımdan (ablative first-person singular)
atlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
atından (ablative second-person singular)
atlarından (ablative second-person singular)
atından (ablative singular third-person)
atlarından (ablative singular third-person)
atımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
atlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
atınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
atlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
atlarından (ablative plural third-person)
atımın (first-person genitive singular)
atlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
atının (genitive second-person singular)
atlarının (genitive second-person singular)
atının (genitive singular third-person)
atlarının (genitive singular third-person)
atımızın (first-person genitive plural)
atlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
atınızın (genitive plural second-person)
atlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
atlarının (genitive plural third-person)
atım (first-person singular)
atlarım (first-person singular)
atsın (second-person singular)
atlarsın (second-person singular)
at (singular third-person)
attır (singular third-person)
atlar (singular third-person)
atlardır (singular third-person)
atız (first-person plural)
atlarız (first-person plural)
atsınız (plural second-person)
atlarsınız (plural second-person)
atlar (plural third-person)
atlardır (plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish آت (at, “horse”), from Proto-Turkic *at, *ăt (“horse”). Cognate with Karakhanid اَتْ (at, “horse”), Old Turkic 𐱃 (t¹ /at/, “horse”).

at bulunur meydan bulunmaz, meydan bulunur at bulunmaz

at çalındıktan sonra ahırın kapısını kapamak


for

fa (alternative)
fo (alternative)
fo' (alternative)
fur (alternative)
fuh (alternative)
fer (alternative)

From Middle English for, from Old English for (“for, because of”), from Proto-Germanic *furi (“for”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Cognate with West Frisian foar (“for”), Dutch voor (“for”), German für (“for”), Danish for (“for”), Swedish för (“for”), Norwegian for (“for”), Icelandic fyrir (“for”), Latin per (“by, through, for, by means of”) and Romance language descendants (e.g. Spanish para (“for”)), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “for, about, toward”), Lithuanian per (“by, through, during”), Slovak pre (“for”), Sanskrit परि (pári, “over, around”).

cog

At close of play, England were 305 for 3.

(cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.


fall

en-noun

fall (countable and uncountable, plural falls)

ascent

antonym(s) of “act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity”

ascent

antonym(s) of “loss of greatness or status”

Fall Classic
Fall of Baghdad
Fall of Constantinople
Fall of Rome
Fall of Saigon
Falls-to-Falls Corridor
fall

Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”).
Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Danish falde (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”).
Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ġefeall (“a falling, fall”) and Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”). Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall (“fall”) and German Falle (“trap, snare”), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.
Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.

inh

(sports) A crucial event or circumstance.

(cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.

A crucial event or circumstance.
The action of a batsman being out.

(curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.


boomerang

→ Japanese: ブーメラン (būmeran)

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football, rugby) A boomerang kick.


girl

en-noun

girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)

girls (plural)
gal (alternative)
gel (alternative)
girle (alternative)
gyrle (alternative)
gorl (alternative)
grrrl (alternative)
grrl (alternative)
guhrl (alternative)
gurl (alternative)
gworl (alternative)
gyal (alternative)

desctree

Jamaican Creole: gyal, gal
→ English: gal; gyal
→ Icelandic: gella
→ Japanese: ギャル (gyaru)
→ English: gyaru

Tok Pisin: gel

→⇒ Finnish: kiltsi

→ French: girl; gow

→ German: Girl

→ Hungarian: görl

→ Japanese: ガール (gāru)

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.

(card games, slang, uncommon) A queen (the playing card).


leather

en-noun

leather (countable and uncountable, plural leathers)

Tok Pisin: let

→ Esperanto: ledo

→ Ido: ledro

From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro-.
Cognate with West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”).

Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.


advertisement

advertisement (countable and uncountable, plural advertisements)

advertisements (plural)
advertizement (alternative)

From Middle French advertissement (“statement calling attention”), compare French avertissement (“warning”). See advertise. Equivalent to advertise + -ment.

bor

The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.

1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup, page 121:

(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.


fish

en-verb

fish (third-person singular simple present fishes, present participle fishing, simple past and past participle fished)

fishes (present singular third-person)
fishing (participle present)
fished (participle past)
fished (past)

From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fiskōn, from Proto-Germanic *fiskōną.

snoeken

when fishing for this particular kind of fish

(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.


arm

From Middle English arm, from Old English earm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint; arm, forequarter”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”).
Cognates
Akin to Dutch arm, German Arm, Yiddish אָרעם (orem), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish arm. Indo-European cognates include Latin armus (“the uppermost part of the arm, shoulder”), Bulgarian рамо (ramo), Polish ramię, Serbo-Croatian rȁme, Armenian արմունկ (armunk, “elbow”), Ancient Greek ἁρμός (harmós, “joint, shoulder”) and ἅρμα (hárma, “wagon, chariot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 (arma), Old Persian [script needed] (arma).

cog

break one's arm patting oneself on the back

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.


as

From Latin as (“basic Roman unit of money”).

(games) an ace (the side of a die with a single pip)

(card games) an ace (a card with a single pip, usually of highest rank in a suit)


as

English: ace (see there for further descendants)

→ Middle Welsh: as

Welsh: as

Scots: ace

From Old French as (“ace”), from Latin as, assis (“as (Roman coin)”).

(dice games) The lowest possible throw in dice.


as

asik (diminutive)
as (nominative singular)
asy (nominative plural)
asa (genitive singular)
asów (genitive plural)
asowi (dative singular)
asom (dative plural)
asa (accusative singular)
asy (accusative plural)
asem (instrumental singular)
asami (instrumental plural)
asie (locative singular)
asach (locative plural)
asie (singular vocative)
asy (plural vocative)


as

ȁs (canonical masculine)
а̏с (Cyrillic)
as (nominative singular)
asovi (nominative plural)
asa (genitive singular)
asova (genitive plural)
asu (dative singular)
asovima (dative plural)
as (accusative singular)
asa (accusative singular)
asove (accusative plural)
asu (singular vocative)
asovi (plural vocative)
asu (locative singular)
asovima (locative plural)
asom (instrumental singular)
asovima (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from German As, from Latin as (“as, copper coin”).


as

ȃs (animate canonical masculine)
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ás (nominative singular)
ása (dual nominative)
ási (nominative plural)
ása (genitive singular)
ásov (dual genitive)
ásov (genitive plural)
ásu (dative singular)
ásoma (dative dual)
ásom (dative plural)
ása (accusative singular)
ása (accusative dual)
áse (accusative plural)
ásu (locative singular)
ásih (dual locative)
ásih (locative plural)
ásom (instrumental singular)
ásoma (dual instrumental)
ási (instrumental plural)

(card games) An ace; in a game of cards.


as

(card games) an ace (in a game of cards)


as

head

as (definite accusative ası, plural aslar)

ası (accusative definite)
aslar (plural)

tr:Lâkap ve Unvanların Kaldırılması Hakkındaki Kanun

Borrowed from French as. Note that in Ottoman Turkish until its end – though it be that playing cards had been introduced in Turkey by Europeans and French in particular – the card was called بك (bey). Apparently this usage switch is a function of the Law on the Abolishment of Nicknames and Titles from the 26th of November 1934 (Lâkap ve Unvanların Kaldırılması Hakkındaki Kanun).


as

Inherited from Middle Welsh as, from Middle English as (“ace”).


moon

Sranan Tongo: mun

Tok Pisin: mun

Torres Strait Creole: mun

From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), Saterland Frisian Moune (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Faroese máni (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.

inh

(card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.


moon

en-verb

moon (third-person singular simple present moons, present participle mooning, simple past and past participle mooned)

moons (present singular third-person)
mooning (participle present)
mooned (participle past)
mooned (past)


boom

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

booms (present singular third-person)
booming (participle present)
boomed (participle past)
boomed (past)

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.

It can get fast enough that it's hard to see what flashed on your screen though, so it would be nice if chess engines had a feature of persistently showing you what move they planned to play before they boomed, even if it took less than a second for them to figure it out.

2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

In its White game Stockfish had various moments of booming during these long thinks, but these long thinks always ended disappointingly in a slightly lower evaluation than it started with.

2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 2022-12-13:

(computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.


boom

→ German: Boom

Indonesian: bum

→ Japanese: ブーム (būmu)

→ Polish: boom

→ Russian: бум (bum)

Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant.

The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!

(computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.


laundry

en-noun

laundry (countable and uncountable, plural laundries)

dialectal, obsolete, distinct from the cot–caught merger

From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.

(slang, American football) A penalty flag.


right

Unadapted borrowing from English right fielder.


quadruple

Ce tirage permettait plusieurs quadruples.

J’ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.

I lost a dozen points on a difficult quadruple "mosaic".

(Scrabble) a move whose score is multiplied by four

Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".

The quadruple on column 5 remains open with the sequence "ena" or "ene".

(Scrabble) the area on the board where such a move is possible


rainbow

Sranan Tongo: alenbo

From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to rain + bow (“arch”). Cognate with West Frisian reinbôge (“rainbow”), Dutch regenboog (“rainbow”), German Regenbogen (“rainbow”), Danish regnbue (“rainbow”), Swedish regnbåge (“rainbow”), Icelandic regnbogi (“rainbow”).

(baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.

(soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick


flower

Unadapted borrowing from English flower.

(mahjong) act of declaring and revealing a flower or season tile and in order drawing a replacement tile


duck

en-noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks or duck)

ducks (plural)
duck (plural)
ducke (alternative)

desctree

Sranan Tongo: doksi (from the plural)
→ Dutch: doks

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Dutch duiker (“diver, dipper, plunger”), German Low German Düker (“diver”), German Taucher (“diver, plunger”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian ныро́к (nyrók, “pochard”) connected with ныря́ть (nyrjátʹ, “to dive”).

cog

could eat the arse out of a low flying duck

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks

(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)

nulletjie

a batsman's score of zero after getting out


hack

en-verb

hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past and past participle hacked)

hacks (present singular third-person)
hacking (participle present)
hacked (participle past)
hacked (past)

Spanish: jaquear

From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”).
The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking).

اِخْتَرَقَ

to gain illegal access to a computer network

He went to the batter's box hacking.

Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.

8 May 2019, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian:

(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.


hack

en-noun

hack (countable and uncountable, plural hacks)

(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.

And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.

(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.


mine

→ Persian: مین (min)

→ Vietnamese: mìn

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).


hole

→ Japanese: ホール (hōru)

→ Korean: 홀 (hol)

Sranan Tongo: olo

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

отвор

orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities)

know one's ass from a hole in the ground

know one's head from a hole in the ground

know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground

The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

(baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

(chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.


wood

en-noun

wood (countable and uncountable, plural woods)

Sranan Tongo: udu

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”).
Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish ved (“wood”), Swedish ved (“firewood”), Icelandic viður (“wood”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”); all from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).

der

[…] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

1971, Chess Life & Review, volume 26, page 309:

(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.


finale

(chess) endgame, end game (moment in the game when the threat of checkmate is low and the kings participate in the struggle)


maul

From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.

(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.


lob

First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.

Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:

(ball games) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.


hut

A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.

(American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.


uppish

en-adj

uppish (comparative more uppish, superlative most uppish)

more uppish (comparative)
most uppish (superlative)

Six runs were still required, and an uppish stroke by the new arrival secured two of them.

1898 July, Philip C. W. Trevor, “A Second Innings: A Story of a ’Varsity Match”, in The Badminton Magazine, published 1989, page 13:

All the coaching he had received had been aimed at keeping the ball down. An ‘uppish’ stroke was to be deplored. But everything had to be uppish on this pitch.

1974, James Herriot, chapter 24, in Vet in Harness, London: Pan Books, published 2006, page 174:

(cricket, of a shot) In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.


travel

en-verb

travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)

travels (present singular third-person)
travelling (participle present)
traveling (US participle present)
travelled (participle past)
travelled (past)
traveled (US participle past)
traveled (US past)
travel (infinitive)
travail (alternative)
travell (alternative)

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublet travail.
Largely displaced fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.

cog

(intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.


pen

From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin.
Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary (“prison”), being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884).

der

Two righties are up in the pen.


tin

en-noun

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)

From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

(countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.


silly

en-adj

silly (comparative sillier, superlative silliest)

sillier (comparative)
silliest (superlative)
sely (alternative)
seely (alternative)

From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli; equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” to “innocent” to “naive” to “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).

onnosel

foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom

sølle

pejorative: simple, not intelligent, unrefined

Carpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward.

(cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.


retreat

From Middle English retret, from Old French retrait or retret, from Latin retractus, from retraho. Doublet of retract, retrait, and ritratto.

doublet

(chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.


sidewinder

From side + winder (“one who winds or wends, traveller”), from the sideways, looping manner in which they move.

compound

(baseball, colloquial) A pitcher who throws sidearm.


mustard

en-noun

mustard (usually uncountable, plural mustards)

From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French moutarde), from moust (“must”), from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster (“mustard”), Dutch mosterd (“mustard”), German Low German Musterd (“mustard”), Icelandic mustarður (“mustard”). Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep, from Latin sināpi (“mustard”). Doublet of mostarda.

He's left-handed and in his adulthood didn't have a baseball glove to call his own. He borrowed one of mine and just out of the car, still wearing his lab coat having worked an overnight shift, he taught himself to throw right-handed and put plenty of mustard on it.

2022 October 20, Scott Russell, “Sport was the great connection for Scott Russell and his father”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2022-10-22:

(baseball, colloquial) Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).


whitewash

en-verb

whitewash (third-person singular simple present whitewashes, present participle whitewashing, simple past and past participle whitewashed)

whitewashes (present singular third-person)
whitewashing (participle present)
whitewashed (participle past)
whitewashed (past)

Received Pronunciation, wine–whine merger

General American, wine–whine merger, Canadian raising

(baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.


handout

handouts (plural)
hand-out (alternative)

→ German: Handout

كُرَّاسَة

printed sheet given out free of charge (usually by hand) for a certain use

ողորմություն

gift of money or material assistance to the needy or poor — see also freebie

hand-out

(racquets, real tennis, squash) player to whom a ball is served

(US, card games, archaic, rare) An act of dealing playing cards; a deal.


bucket

→ Farefare: bɔgtɛ

→ Japanese: バケツ (baketsu)

→ Maori: pākete

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

gloss

"bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">buck</i>

der

The forward drove to the bucket.

We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.

2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:


alo

eo-head

alo (accusative singular alon, plural aloj, accusative plural alojn)

alon (accusative singular)
aloj (plural)
alojn (accusative plural)

(chess) flank, wing (left or right side of the chessboard)


AP

en-noun

AP (countable and uncountable, plural APs)

(countable, gambling) Initialism of advantage player.


PA

PA (countable and uncountable, plural PAs)

Coordinate term: PF

The Giants and Commanders have the same record after 13 games each. However, Washington has control of third place in the NFC East due to a better PF/PA record in comparison to the Giants.

2022 December 14, “NFL Playoff picture Week 15: Are the New York Giants still in contention for the postseason?”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:

(American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.


SP

SP (countable and uncountable, plural SPs)

SPs (plural)
S.P. (alternative)
S. P. (alternative)

(video games, mostly role-playing games) synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements. Common examples of meanings of the abbreviation include but are not limited to: skill point, special point, spirit point, and spell point.


ban

From Dutch baan, from Middle Dutch bāne, from Old Dutch *bana, from Proto-Germanic *banō.

(sports, ball games) court, field (place for playing sports or games, in particular non-team ball games)


bed

bed (countable and uncountable, plural beds)

→ Chichewa: bedi

→ Chuukese: pet

→ Esperanto: bedo

→ Japanese: ベッド (beddo)

African-American Vernacular, some speakers

Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).

bed

flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.


BS

en-noun

BS (countable and uncountable, plural BSs)

BSs (plural)
B.S. (alternative)
B. S. (alternative)


CI

CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

corner infielder
corner infielder#English

(baseball) Initialism of corner infielder.


CL

CL (countable and uncountable, plural CLs)


CM

CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)

Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “commercial video ad”), from English commercial + message.


CS

(baseball) Initialism of caught stealing. (especially as a statistic)


CS

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(computer games) Initialism of Counter-Strike: a series of multiplayer first-person shooter video games that began in 1999.


NL

(US, Canada, baseball) Initialism of National League.


TB

TB (countable and uncountable, plural TBs)


bite

bite (countable and uncountable, plural bites)

Sranan Tongo: beti

From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).

(cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.


CA

Cricket Australia
w:en:Cricket Australia

(sports, cricket) Abbreviation of Cricket Australia, the governing body of cricket in Australia.


GA

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)


KS

en-verb

KS (third-person singular simple present KSs, present participle KSing, simple past and past participle KSed)

KSs (present singular third-person)
KSing (participle present)
KSed (participle past)
KSed (past)

(online gaming) Initialism of kill steal.


MI

en-noun

MI (countable and uncountable, plural MIs)

middle infielder
middle infielder#English

(baseball) Initialism of middle infielder.


safe

en-adj

safe (comparative safer or more safe, superlative safest or most safe)

safer (comparative)
more safe (comparative)
safest (superlative)
most safe (superlative)

→ Japanese: セーフ

From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
Displaced native Old English sicor (secure, sure).

der

The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.

(baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.

(snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.


save

en-verb

save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)

saves (present singular third-person)
saving (participle present)
saved (participle past)
saved (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).

etymon

save one's breath to cool one's porridge

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.

(baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.

to save a fiver

(transitive, gambling, slang, archaic) To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.


save

Jones retired seven to earn the save.

An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

(baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.


save

Eu cheguei mesmo na última fase, mas perdi meu save então terei que começar o jogo de novo.

I did reach the final level, but I lost my save file so I'm gonna have to start the game over.

Insira um memory card no console com um save do jogo Shinobi.

2005, Equipe Digerati, Dicas Arrasadoras Para Playstation, Universo dos Livros Editora, →ISBN, page 80:

(informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)


piece

Belizean Creole: pees

Sranan Tongo: pisi

→ Finnish: biisi

→ Irish: píosa

→ Japanese: ピース (pīsu)

→ Scottish Gaelic: pìos

From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”); doublet of English fit, fytte, fytt (“musical piece, chapter”), Icelandic fit (“web”), German Fitze (“skein”), from Old High German *fitjâ. Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo.

der

Pawns, unlike pieces, move only in one direction: forward.

1959, Hans Kmoch, Pawn Power in Chess, section I:

(chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.

قِطْعَة

chess: figure other than pawn; similar counter in other games

Offizier

he got a piece of that one; she got a piece of the ball[…]and it's going foul.

(baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.


draw

en-verb

draw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)

draws (present singular third-person)
drawing (participle present)
drew (past)
drawn (participle past)
drew (colloquial nonstandard participle past)
draw (infinitive)

From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
Cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage

snímat

cardgames: to take the top card of a deck into hand

every miller draws water to his own mill

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

(curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

(cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.

(card games) To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.


draw

en-noun

draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)

(cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).

(curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.


look

en-verb

look (third-person singular simple present looks, present participle looking, simple past and past participle looked)

looks (present singular third-person)
looking (participle present)
looked (participle past)
looked (past)
look (infinitive)

some Northern Enɡlish dialects, esp. Bolton, Geordie

From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).

unk

unknown

look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

look like something the cat's dragged in

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

The fastball caught him looking.

Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.

It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it.

(baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.


burro

gl-noun

burro m (plural burros, feminine burra, feminine plural burras)

burros (plural)
burra (feminine)
burras (feminine plural)

Ultimately from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).


we

head

we (first-person plural personal pronoun nominative case, objective case us, possessive determiner our, possessive pronoun ours, reflexive ourselves, reflexive singular ourself)

en-pron

us (objective)
our (determiner possessive)
ours (possessive pronoun without-noun)
ourselves (reflexive)
ourself (reflexive singular)

Jamaican Creole: wi

Sranan Tongo: wi

From Middle English we, from Old English wē (“we”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz (“we”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we (plural)”). Cognate with Scots wee, we (“we”), North Frisian we (“we”), West Frisian wy (“we”), Low German wi (“we”), Dutch we, wij (“we”), German wir (“we”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vi (“we”), Icelandic vér, við (“we”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬨 (vaēm), Sanskrit वयम् (vayám).

awp

generic we (the speaker and at least one other person, regardless of whether it's the person being addressed)

我們 /我们

generic in most dialects, but exclusive in some

(usually indicated by the suffix only) -unk

kita

inclusive we (the speaker and the person(s) being addressed, and possibly others)

the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know

the real treasure is the friends we made along the way

we have always been at war with Eastasia

what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive

(bridge) The side which is keeping score.


they

head

they (third-person, nominative case, usually plural, sometimes singular, objective case them, possessive their, possessive noun theirs, reflexive themselves, or reflexive singular themself)

en-pron

them (objective)
their (possessive)
theirs (noun possessive)
themselves (reflexive)
themself (reflexive singular)
They (alternative)
dey (alternative)
thay (alternative)
theye (alternative)
thaay (alternative)
theye (alternative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tóy
Proto-Germanic *þai
Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛁᛉ (*þaiʀ)
Old Norse þeirbor.
Middle English þei
English they From Middle English þei, borrowed in the 1200s from Old Norse þeir, plural of the demonstrative sá which acted as a plural pronoun. Displaced native Middle English he from Old English hīe — which vowel changes had left indistinct from he (“he”) — by the 1400s, being readily incorporated alongside native words beginning with the same sound (the, that, this). Used as a singular pronoun since 1300, e.g. in the 1325 Cursor Mundi.
The Norse term (whence also Icelandic þeir (“they”), Faroese teir (“they”), Danish de (“they”), Swedish de (“they”), Norwegian Nynorsk dei (“they”)) is from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”) (from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”)), whence also Old English þā (“those”) (whence obsolete English tho), Scots thae, thai, thay (“they; those”).
The origin of the determiner they (“the, those”) is unclear. The OED, English Dialect Dictionary and Middle English Dictionary define it and its Middle English predecessor thei as a demonstrative determiner or adjective meaning "those" or "the". This could be a continuation of the use of the English pronoun they's Old Norse etymon þeir as a demonstrative meaning "those", but the OED and EDD say it is limited to southern, especially southwestern, England, specifically outside the region of Norse contact.

etymon

it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right

The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun

including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete

other attested third-person singular pronouns

(bridge) The opponents of the side which is keeping score.


handicap

en-noun

handicap (countable and uncountable, plural handicaps)

From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.

Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.

1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 95:

(obsolete, uncountable, card games) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.


elbow

From Middle English elbowe, from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish albue (“elbow”), Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”).

know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow

(basketball) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.


leg

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

der

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.

(cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.

If one leg from your 2-way parlay pushes and the other wins, your parlay bet wins and is paid off as if it's a straight bet (paying -110 or whatever the odds were).

2020, Swain Scheps, Sports Betting For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 265:

(gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).


leg

legek (plural)
leg (nominative singular)
legek (nominative plural)
leget (accusative singular)
legeket (accusative plural)
legnek (dative singular)
legeknek (dative plural)
leggel (instrumental singular)
legekkel (instrumental plural)
legért (causal-final singular)
legekért (causal-final plural)
leggé (singular translative)
legekké (plural translative)
legig (singular terminative)
legekig (plural terminative)
legként (essive-formal singular)
legekként (essive-formal plural)
legben (inessive singular)
legekben (inessive plural)
legen (singular superessive)
legeken (plural superessive)
legnél (adessive singular)
legeknél (adessive plural)
legbe (illative singular)
legekbe (illative plural)
legre (singular sublative)
legekre (plural sublative)
leghez (allative singular)
legekhez (allative plural)
legből (elative singular)
legekből (elative plural)
legről (delative singular)
legekről (delative plural)
legtől (ablative singular)
legektől (ablative plural)
legé (singular)
legeké (plural)
legéi (singular)
legekéi (plural)
legem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
legjeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
leged (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
legjeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
legje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
legjei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
legünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
legjeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
legetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
legjeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
legjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
legjeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From English leg (“single game or match played in a tournament”).

bor

(darts) leg (single game played in darts)


foot

en-noun

foot (plural feet or (UK colloquial, unit of measure) foot)

feet (plural)
foot (plural)
foote (alternative)
feets (alternative)
foots (alternative)

→ Assamese: ফুট (phut)

q

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">feet</i>

→ Japanese: フット (futto), フート (fūto); フィート (fīto) (from feet)

→ Russian: фут (fut)

Sranan Tongo: futu

Aukan: futu

Saramaccan: fútu

→ Swahili: futi

→ Thai: ฟุต (fút)

Tok Pisin: fut, put

→ Urdu: فٹ (fuṭ)

→ Phalura: fuṭ

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.

doublet

not touch something with a ten-foot pole

you cannot put the same shoe on every foot

(billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.


face

→ Danish: fjæs

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: fjes

Norwegian Nynorsk: fjes

→ Swedish: fejs, fjäs

→ Wu: 番斯 (¹fe-sy)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.
In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 (miànzi) or 臉／脸 (liǎn), both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face.

noncog

talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening

(card games) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).


face

en-verb

face (third-person singular simple present faces, present participle facing, simple past and past participle faced)

faces (present singular third-person)
facing (participle present)
faced (participle past)
faced (past)

Willoughby comes in to bowl, and it's Hobson facing.

(intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.


matka

pl-noun

matka f (diminutive mateczka or mateńka or matuchna or (dialectal) matynka or matusia or matuś, augmentative matczysko, related adjective matczyny)

mateczka (diminutive)
mateńka (diminutive)
matuchna (diminutive)
matynka (dialectal diminutive)
matusia (diminutive)
matuś (diminutive)
matczysko (augmentative)
matczyny (adjective)

Inherited from Old Polish matka. By surface analysis, mać + -ka.

(countable, games) captain (most important player or team manager)


re

(card games) double raise (multiplies the current stake by 4)


re

→ Maltese: re

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Italic *rēks
Latin rēx
Italian re
Inherited from Latin rēx, via the nominative singular, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of rege, which was borrowed from Latin via the accusative rēgem.


re

Borrowed from Sicilian re and/or Italian re, from Latin rēx.


wieża

wieżyczka (diminutive)
wieża (nominative singular)
wieże (nominative plural)
wieży (genitive singular)
wież (genitive plural)
wieży (dative singular)
wieżom (dative plural)
wieżę (accusative singular)
wieże (accusative plural)
wieżą (instrumental singular)
wieżami (instrumental plural)
wieży (locative singular)
wieżach (locative plural)
wieżo (singular vocative)
wieże (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish wieża, from Proto-Slavic *věža.


matador

Borrowed from Spanish matador (“killer”). Used in the English language as title for a bullfighter, however referred to as a torero in Spain.

bor+

(card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.

(card games) One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.


青

青 (canonical)
ao (romanization)
awo (romanization)
あを (hiragana historical)

/sawo/ (uncertain, may be compound as opposed to root) → /awo/ → /ao/
From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *awo.
Appears as the latter part in older compounds with an -s- infix or prefix. It is unclear if this leading /s/ is indicative of an earlier form (sawo), or if this was an addition for euphony to avoid vowel clusters, or for other reasons. This /s/ is also seen in 雨(あめ) (ame, “rain”, becoming same in old compounds) and 稲(いね) (ine, “rice”, becoming shine in old compounds).
Given that this /s/ only ever appears interstitially, and given the semantics, this /s/ may be cognate with Korean interfix ㅅ (-s-) used to mark possession; compare German -s-.

ja-r

(card games) Short for 青短 (aotan): one of the three hanafuda cards bearing a blue 短冊 (tanzaku, “narrow card used for poetry”); a 役 (yaku) of the three aotan cards, worth 3 points

青短

天正カルタ 天正カルタ#Japanese

(card games) a blue card in 天正カルタ (Tenshō karuta)


regina

→ Maltese: reġina

Inherited from Latin rēgīna; cognate with Spanish reina.


regina

la-noun

rēgīna f (genitive rēgīnae, masculine rēx); first declension

rēgīna (canonical feminine)
rēgīnae (genitive)
rēx (masculine)
rēgīna (nominative singular)
rēgīnae (nominative plural)
rēgīnae (genitive singular)
rēgīnārum (genitive plural)
rēgīnae (dative singular)
rēgīnīs (dative plural)
rēgīnam (accusative singular)
rēgīnās (accusative plural)
rēgīnā (ablative singular)
rēgīnīs (ablative plural)
rēgīna (singular vocative)
rēgīnae (plural vocative)

Asturian: reina

Franco-Provençal: rêna

Friulian: reìne

Italian: regina
→ Maltese: reġina

Neapolitan: riggina

desctree

Old French: royne
French: reine
Norman: royne, ranne, reine
Walloon: royinne
→ Old East Slavic: ръ́ина (rŷ́ina)

Old Galician-Portuguese: reinha, reỹa, reynna, reýña, reyña, rreýña, rreyña, rainha, raynna, raỹa, rayña
Galician: raíña
Portuguese: rainha

Old Occitan: reina
Occitan: reina

Old Spanish: reyna
Spanish: reina (see there for further descendants)

Romansch: regina, rigegna, raïna

Sardinian: reina, arreina

desc

Sicilian: rijina (obsolete), riggina (influenced by Italian)

Venetan: rexina

Walloon: royinne

→ Basque: erregina

→ English: Regina, regina

→ Interlingua: regina

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: regina

→ Romanian: regină

→ Translingual: Regina

Inherited from Proto-Italic *rēgīnā, see there for more. A feminine counterpart to rēx, rēgis (“king”).


pata

pata (nominative singular)
padat (nominative plural)
pata (accusative nominative singular)
padat (accusative nominative plural)
padan (accusative genitive singular)
padat (accusative genitive plural)
padan (genitive singular)
patojen (genitive plural)
patain (genitive plural rare)
pataa (partitive singular)
patoja (partitive plural)
padassa (inessive singular)
padoissa (inessive plural)
padasta (elative singular)
padoista (elative plural)
pataan (illative singular)
patoihin (illative plural)
padalla (adessive singular)
padoilla (adessive plural)
padalta (ablative singular)
padoilta (ablative plural)
padalle (allative singular)
padoille (allative plural)
patana (essive singular)
patoina (essive plural)
padaksi (singular translative)
padoiksi (plural translative)
padatta (abessive singular)
padoitta (abessive plural)
padoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
patani (nominative singular)
patani (nominative plural)
patani (accusative nominative singular)
patani (accusative nominative plural)
patani (accusative genitive singular)
patani (accusative genitive plural)
patani (genitive singular)
patojeni (genitive plural)
pataini (genitive plural rare)
pataani (partitive singular)
patojani (partitive plural)
padassani (inessive singular)
padoissani (inessive plural)
padastani (elative singular)
padoistani (elative plural)
pataani (illative singular)
patoihini (illative plural)
padallani (adessive singular)
padoillani (adessive plural)
padaltani (ablative singular)
padoiltani (ablative plural)
padalleni (allative singular)
padoilleni (allative plural)
patanani (essive singular)
patoinani (essive plural)
padakseni (singular translative)
padoikseni (plural translative)
padattani (abessive singular)
padoittani (abessive plural)
patoineni (comitative plural)
patasi (nominative singular)
patasi (nominative plural)
patasi (accusative nominative singular)
patasi (accusative nominative plural)
patasi (accusative genitive singular)
patasi (accusative genitive plural)
patasi (genitive singular)
patojesi (genitive plural)
pataisi (genitive plural rare)
pataasi (partitive singular)
patojasi (partitive plural)
padassasi (inessive singular)
padoissasi (inessive plural)
padastasi (elative singular)
padoistasi (elative plural)
pataasi (illative singular)
patoihisi (illative plural)
padallasi (adessive singular)
padoillasi (adessive plural)
padaltasi (ablative singular)
padoiltasi (ablative plural)
padallesi (allative singular)
padoillesi (allative plural)
patanasi (essive singular)
patoinasi (essive plural)
padaksesi (singular translative)
padoiksesi (plural translative)
padattasi (abessive singular)
padoittasi (abessive plural)
patoinesi (comitative plural)
patamme (nominative singular)
patamme (nominative plural)
patamme (accusative nominative singular)
patamme (accusative nominative plural)
patamme (accusative genitive singular)
patamme (accusative genitive plural)
patamme (genitive singular)
patojemme (genitive plural)
pataimme (genitive plural rare)
pataamme (partitive singular)
patojamme (partitive plural)
padassamme (inessive singular)
padoissamme (inessive plural)
padastamme (elative singular)
padoistamme (elative plural)
pataamme (illative singular)
patoihimme (illative plural)
padallamme (adessive singular)
padoillamme (adessive plural)
padaltamme (ablative singular)
padoiltamme (ablative plural)
padallemme (allative singular)
padoillemme (allative plural)
patanamme (essive singular)
patoinamme (essive plural)
padaksemme (singular translative)
padoiksemme (plural translative)
padattamme (abessive singular)
padoittamme (abessive plural)
patoinemme (comitative plural)
patanne (nominative singular)
patanne (nominative plural)
patanne (accusative nominative singular)
patanne (accusative nominative plural)
patanne (accusative genitive singular)
patanne (accusative genitive plural)
patanne (genitive singular)
patojenne (genitive plural)
patainne (genitive plural rare)
pataanne (partitive singular)
patojanne (partitive plural)
padassanne (inessive singular)
padoissanne (inessive plural)
padastanne (elative singular)
padoistanne (elative plural)
pataanne (illative singular)
patoihinne (illative plural)
padallanne (adessive singular)
padoillanne (adessive plural)
padaltanne (ablative singular)
padoiltanne (ablative plural)
padallenne (allative singular)
padoillenne (allative plural)
patananne (essive singular)
patoinanne (essive plural)
padaksenne (singular translative)
padoiksenne (plural translative)
padattanne (abessive singular)
padoittanne (abessive plural)
patoinenne (comitative plural)
patansa (nominative singular)
patansa (nominative plural)
patansa (accusative nominative singular)
patansa (accusative nominative plural)
patansa (accusative genitive singular)
patansa (accusative genitive plural)
patansa (genitive singular)
patojensa (genitive plural)
patainsa (genitive plural rare)
pataansa (partitive singular)
patojaan (partitive plural)
patojansa (partitive plural)
padassaan (inessive singular)
padassansa (inessive singular)
padoissaan (inessive plural)
padoissansa (inessive plural)
padastaan (elative singular)
padastansa (elative singular)
padoistaan (elative plural)
padoistansa (elative plural)
pataansa (illative singular)
patoihinsa (illative plural)
padallaan (adessive singular)
padallansa (adessive singular)
padoillaan (adessive plural)
padoillansa (adessive plural)
padaltaan (ablative singular)
padaltansa (ablative singular)
padoiltaan (ablative plural)
padoiltansa (ablative plural)
padalleen (allative singular)
padallensa (allative singular)
padoilleen (allative plural)
padoillensa (allative plural)
patanaan (essive singular)
patanansa (essive singular)
patoinaan (essive plural)
patoinansa (essive plural)
padakseen (singular translative)
padaksensa (singular translative)
padoikseen (plural translative)
padoiksensa (plural translative)
padattaan (abessive singular)
padattansa (abessive singular)
padoittaan (abessive plural)
padoittansa (abessive plural)
patoineen (comitative plural)
patoinensa (comitative plural)

→ Ingrian: pata

Borrowed from Swedish spader (“spades”), from German Spaten, after Spanish espada and/or Italian spada (“sword”), originally used for the suit of swords in the Latin suits which corresponds to spades in the French suits.

patakymppi

(card games) spades (suit in playing cards)


pata

pata (nominative singular)
paat (nominative plural)
paan (genitive singular)
pattoin (genitive plural)
pattaa (partitive singular)
patoja (partitive plural)
pattaa (illative singular)
pattoi (illative plural)
paas (inessive singular)
paois (inessive plural)
paast (elative singular)
paoist (elative plural)
paalle (allative singular)
paoille (allative plural)
paal (adessive singular)
paoil (adessive plural)
paalt (ablative singular)
paoilt (ablative plural)
paaks (singular translative)
paoiks (plural translative)
patanna (essive singular)
pattaan (essive singular)
patoinna (essive plural)
pattoin (essive plural)
patant (exessive singular)
patoint (exessive plural)

Borrowed from Finnish pata, from Swedish spader.


heel

From Middle English hele, from Old English hēla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel, hock”), equivalent to hock + -le. More at hock.
Compare North Frisian haiel, West Frisian hyl, Dutch hiel, German Low German Hiel, Danish and Norwegian hæl, Swedish häl.

couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel

(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.

pakka

card games: cards set aside for later use


heel

en-verb

heel (third-person singular simple present heels, present participle heeling, simple past and past participle heeled)

heels (present singular third-person)
heeling (participle present)
heeled (participle past)
heeled (past)

(American football, transitive) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.


loose

From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.

der

The defeat will leave manager Martin Johnson under pressure after his gamble of pairing Jonny Wilkinson and Toby Flood at 10 and 12 failed to ignite the England back line, while his forwards were repeatedly second best at the set-piece and in the loose.

2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:

(rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).


road

From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway).
The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late—Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar—and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway "a way for riding on" as saying "way" twice, in other words as a tautological compound.

inh

his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

the grass is always greener on the other side of the road

the road to hell is paved with good intentions

what happens on the road stays on the road

(cricket) A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.


exit

en-verb

exit (third-person singular simple present exits, present participle exiting, simple past and past participle exited)

exits (present singular third-person)
exiting (participle present)
exited (participle past)
exited (past)

From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus.
The verb is derived from the noun.

ацара

to go out or go away from a place or situation — see also depart, leave

West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.

2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 173:

(bridge, intransitive) To give up the lead.


lane

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

cog

(card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.


alley

From Middle English aley, from Old French alee, feminine of alé, past participle of aler (“to go”) (French aller). Doublet of allée.

He hit one deep into the alley.

(baseball) The area between the outfielders.


alas

(card games) an ace; a card with a single spot


force

en-verb

force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)

forces (present singular third-person)
forcing (participle present)
forced (participle past)
forced (past)
force (infinitive)

From Middle English forcen, from Old French forcier, from Late Latin *fortiāre, from Latin fortia.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.

(transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.

branden

baseball: to create an out by touching a base


law

en-noun

law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)

From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).

азакуан

body of rules established in a community by its authorities

(cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

(backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.


down

en-adj

down (comparative more down, superlative most down)

tlb

(chiefly predicative, but see usage notes)

more down (comparative)
most down (superlative)

From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".

noncog

Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.

(baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.


down

en-verb

down (third-person singular simple present downs, present participle downing, simple past and past participle downed)

downs (present singular third-person)
downing (participle present)
downed (participle past)
downed (past)

He downed it at the seven-yard line.

(transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.

He downed two balls on the break.

(transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.