köken: From Persian آدم (âdam), from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam). Cognate with Kazakh, Karakalpak, Kyrgyz адам (adam), Tatar адәм (adäm), Uzbek odam, Turkish adam.
Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
çekim: çoğul आदमों
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔadam- Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (āḏā́m)bor. Arabic آدَم (ʔādam)bor. Classical Persian آدَم (ādam)bor. Hindi आदम Borrowed from Classical Persian آدَم (ādam), borrowed from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (āḏā́m), from Proto-Semitic *ʔadam-.
person, figure (an individual with personhood, such as one representing a certain consciousness) · person, character (in a story) · antipersonnel
çekim: çoğul henkilöt · tamlayan henkilön
köken: henki (“life, state of being alive”) + -ilö. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1857. More information Some sources, including NSES, say that Schildt later came to dislike the word due to its ending in -ö (as it, according to him, made the word sound derisive) and tried to replace it with henkile, although without success.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech člověk, from Proto-Slavic *člověkъ, *čьlověkъ, *čelověkъ. The plural forms are inherited from Old Czech ľudie, from Proto-Slavic *ľudьje.
aile: bohočlověk, člověkohodina, nadčlověk, opočlověk, pačlověk, pračlověk, člověk člověku vlkem, člověk nikdy neví, nejen chlebem živ je člověk
köken: From Old Danish quinnæ, kvinnæ, from Old Norse kvenna, the genitive plural indefinite of kona (“woman, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Related to English queen via Proto-Germanic *kwēniz.
köken: Nominalized adjective, perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *banuyos,masculine derived from Proto-Celtic *ban-, whence Welsh banon (“maiden queen”), Old Breton ban-doiuis (“goddess”), Old Irish ban-chú (“female dog”); akin to Cornish benow (“feminine, female”). Further related to Old Welsh ben (“woman”), from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Doublet of banw.
From Mensch (“human being”). Coined as (gender-neutral) alternative to man (“one”) for the same reason as frau, which see. Compare the use of they (vs she vs he) in English to refer to a generic or specific person whose gender is unknown.