köken: From Old Spanish bandir, from Italian bandire (“to prohibit”), from Frankish *bannjan (“banish”), influenced by Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”).
a child or other youth putting on airs and acting arrogantly · a chav, a bogan · a hoodlum, a minor criminal, a hooligan, a punk
köken: Unknown. Appears in texts from the early 1900s. Early uses referred to young pickpockets. May have originally been a compound of ちん (chin, slang prefix indicating “small, little”, sometimes even spelled 小) + 片 (hira, “piece or scrap of paper”).
a crook (criminal (or dishonest, immoral, etc., by extension) person) · a bad guy, a rogue, etc. (sometimes a better match for tone) · a bad guy, a villain (in a story or the like)
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto fi- Esperanto komerco Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Esperanto -isto Esperanto fikomercisto From fi- + komerco + -isto.
Se fikomercistoj, militistoj, ĝendarmoj, juĝistoj, ekzekutistoj lernas kaj uzas esp.on, tio ne signifas, ke nia idealo baldaŭ realiĝos.
19th-century back-formation from the plural Ganoven, from Yiddish גנבֿים (ganóvim), itself plural of גנבֿ (gánev, “thief”), whence the dated German form above. Further from Hebrew גַּנָּב (gannāv).