köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbon Reduplication of bon (“good”). Compare English goodies. The standard rule in French is to write ⟨m⟩ in front of bilabial consonants (/m/, /p/, /b/). This rule does not apply to the words derived from bon, including…
aile: bonbonnerie, bonbonnier, bonbonnière, coûter bonbon, rose bonbon
köken: /kawajui/ → /kawaiː/ Shift in pronunciation from kawayui below. The kanji spelling 可愛い is an example of ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)), and uses an irregular reading of 愛. The phonological resemblance to Mandarin 可愛 (kě'ài), Min Nan 可愛 (khó-ài, “lovable”) is coincidental. Note that the medial -w- here is not an excrescence added between ka (可) and ai (愛), since the word is not formed from these morphemes.…
friendly, kind, affectionate, loving; also, nice, pleasant, lovely · tame, friendly, not wild, not aggressive · lovely, pleasant, soft, nice (which causes a pleasant reaction, sensation, or feeling; (of weather) warm and pleasant)
çekim: karşılaştırma mīlīgāks · üstünlük vismīlīgākais
eş: laipns, mīļš, jauks, foršs
köken: From mīl(ēt) (“to love”) + -īgs. Originally (in the 17th century) a synonym of mīļš (“dear, beloved”), including the romantic senses, these two words drifted apart semantically in the 18th century, at the end of which they were no longer fully synonymous.
köken: Inherited from Latin dulcem. Compare Occitan doç.
aile: dolçament, dolçor, pernil dolç
Etimoloji
By surface analysis, lieb + -lich. Diachronically, Middle High German lieplich, from Old High German liublīh, lioblīh, from Proto-West Germanic *leubalīk, from Proto-Germanic *leubalīkaz. Cognate with Dutch lieflijk, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (liubaleiks).