pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps lift oneself up by one's bootstraps, lift oneself up by one's own bootstraps, lift oneself up by one's own waistbands...
/ʔa.ʕaː.ra/ أَعَارَ • (ʔaʕāra) IV, non-past يُعِيرُ (yuʕīru) to lend, to loan أَعَارَ صَدِيقَهُ كِتَابًا / أَعَارَ كِتَابًا إِلَى صَدِيقِهِ ʔaʕāra ṣadīqahu...
Chinese 忍 (“to endure”, SV: nhẫn). For some examples of ‹i› in vernacular loans versus ‹â› in standard Sino-Vietnamese, see also phím, kịp, kín, tim. (Hà...
ештини (ješťińi, “to finish, to make it, to die”). Possibly an old Baltic loan from Pre-Baltic *jeh₁g-i̯e, *jeh₁g-i̯o; compare Latvian jēgt (“to understand”)...
Semantic loan from French dissiper, se divertir. The form as in Etymology 2. IPA(key): /ðja.sceˈða.zo/, /ði̯a.sceˈða.zo/ Hyphenation: δια‧σκε‧δά‧ζω, δι‧α‧σκε‧δά‧ζω...
կախւել (kaxwel) — traditional orthography The computing sense is a semantic loan from Russian зави́снуть (zavísnutʹ). (Eastern Armenian) IPA(key): /kɑχˈvel/...
marker) ი- (i-) + ბონ- (bon-, “to wash”) → იბონამს (ibonams, “to wash oneself”) Impersonal mood marker ი- (i-) + ჭკომ- (ç̌ǩom-, “to eat”) → იჭკომენ...
(和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from image + up. IPA(key): [ime̞ːʑi a̠p̚pɯ̟ᵝ] イメージアップ • (imēji appu) improving the impression others get from oneself...
to commit, to perpetrate (a crime, blunder, etc.) (reflexive) to commit oneself kkummissjona (kkommissjona) kummissjonant kummissjonarju kummissjoni (kumissjoni...
Proto-Slavic *lišiti, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-, whence English lend and loan. IPA(key): [lʲɪˈʂɨtʲ] лиши́ть • (lišítʹ) pf (imperfective лиша́ть) (+ genitive)...