köken: Inherited from Middle French beau, from Old French biau, bel, from Latin bellus.
aile: a beau mentir qui vient de loin, à belles dents, à la belle étoile, après la pluie, le beau temps, au beau fixe, au beau milieu de, avoir beau, avoir beau jeu, avoir de beaux jours devant soi, beau comme le jour
attractive, handsome, pretty · impressive, decent, rather good or big · smart, intelligent, gifted, clever
çekim: karşılaştırma knapper · üstünlük knapst
köken: Ca. 1500. A word originally found only in Dutch and Low German; compare Middle Low German knap, whence German knapp, Danish knap, Swedish knapp, all “scarce, scant”, also “tight-fitting, small” (of clothes). From the last, Dutch derived “attractive, pretty”, which was then further generalised; cf. semantically German schmücken (“to embellish", originally "to fit tightly”). Further origin unknown.…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъd + *-jь + *-kъ. Among the Slavic languages, present only in Czech. However, from the same root and with close meaning is Russian приго́жий (prigóžij).
çekim: karşılaştırma pulchrior · üstünlük pulcherrimus
köken: Uncertain. The earlier form polcer is traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *porkros, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s or Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, from the root *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation of the first *-r- into *-l-. De Vaan has questioned this change, thinking that the second *r should have disappeared instead, and thus leaves this term without an etymology.…
köken: From Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, neat”), from Old Saxon *smuk, *smukk, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”). Compare English smug and German schmuck (“pretty”).