köken: Inherited from Old French chaitif, caitif, from Vulgar Latin *cactivus, from a combination of Latin captīvus (“prisoner”) with Transalpine Gaulish *caxtos, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos (compare Irish cacht, Welsh caeth). Compare also Italian cattivo (“bad”). See also French captif, a borrowed doublet.
Il lui semblait chétif, faible, nul, enfin être un pauvre homme, de toutes les façons.
vain, overly proud (of one's appearance, status etc.) · idle, in vain, unfounded · petty, mere, insignificant, worthless
çekim: karşılaştırma ijdeler · üstünlük ijdelst
köken: From Middle Dutch idel, from Old Dutch īdil, from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Cognate with German eitel, English idle. The common Dutch loss of medial -d- led to the by-forms ijl and iel, which eventually acquired different meanings.
köken: Borrowed from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Further derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese.
aile: banana de dinamite, banana-comprida, banana-da-terra, banana-pão, bananal, bananão, bananeira, bananinha, embananar, república das bananas
very little, very small, tiny · puny, petty, insignificant
köken: Proto-Italic *put-sle-los → *pussillos followed by degemination via the so-called "mamilla rule", from Proto-Indo-European *put-lo- (“son”), historically standing in relation to pullus (“young of an animal”) as a diminutive. Latin cognates include pusillus, putillus (“tiny”), pūsus (“boy”), possibly Vulgar Latin *pūtta (“whore”). Further cognate to Faliscan putellio (“little son”, nom.sg.), Oscan…