köken: Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَّطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بَت (bat, “duck”). Sense of "homosexual" may be related to the Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “to suffer, to be passive”).
aile: agarrar de pato, al agua, patos, cola de pato, flor de pato, hacerse el pato, pagar el pato, patería, patito, patico, pato mandarín
duck: bird of the family Anatidae. · the plant Alternanthera sessilis of the family Amaranthaceae. · the plant Alternanthera bettzickiana of the family Amaranthaceae.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Southwestern Tai *petᴰˢ² (“duck”), from Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”). The vowel of เป็ด [pet̚ᴰˢ¹] shows irregularity as a reflex of Proto-Tai *pitᴰ. Such reflexes in Southwestern Tai such as Thai and many Central Tai dialects suggest that this etymon might in fact be a post-Proto-Tai loan. The unaspirated /p-/ indicates an early date of borrowing. In Southwestern Tai, cognate…
From Low German and Middle Low German erpel, which is borrowed from Middle Dutch erpel (introduced by Flemish settlers in the East), probably a pet form of the Old Saxon personal name Erpo or Old High German Erpho (literally “the brown one”), from Proto-Germanic *erpaz (“brown”). The word is not part of modern standard Dutch.