çekim: karşılaştırma alberner · üstünlük am albernsten
köken: From Middle High German alwære, from Old High German alawāri (“friendly, good-natured”), from a compound of Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”) + *wēraz (“true; friendly”). The final -n is an original case ending that was added to the stem in German Low German territory (compare schüchtern). Close cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 (allawērei, “sincerity, simplicity”); for a similar semantic association…
donkey, ass · fool · in compounds meaning big, large
çekim: çoğul خرها
eş: الاغ, درازگوش
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HMRA /xar/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hl /xar/, “donkey, ass”), from Proto-Iranian *xárah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰáras. The meaning of something large is presumed to be from the weight-measure خروار (xar-vâr), originally a donkey-load but later even too heavy for a donkey to carry.
donkey, ass (domestic animal) · a jackass (stupid person)
çekim: çoğul åsnor · tamlayan åsnas
köken: Etymology tree Latin asinus Old French asnebor. Old Norse asni Swedish åsna Inherited from Old Norse asni, borrowed from Old French asne, from Latin asinus.
stupid, dumb; silly (not knowing or understanding much) · stupid, dumb; silly (indicative of such a person or thing) · stupid, dumb; silly (inable to deal with one's affairs and allowing oneself to be exploited; naive)
çekim: karşılaştırma głupszy · üstünlük najgłupszy
donkey, ass (Equus asinus) · donkey, stupid person
çekim: çoğul aasit · tamlayan aasin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish asne or asni (Swedish åsna), from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552).
donkey, ass · ass, cretin, idiot, dolt, blockhead, donkey (a slow-witted, inept person)
çekim: çoğul asinī · tamlayan asinī
eş: iūmentum, onager, onagrus
köken: Usually compared to Ancient Greek ὄνος (ónos) (which cannot be its direct ancestor), and, just like other IE words for "ass", must be traced back to an unknown substrate source in Asia Minor (compare Hieroglyphic Luwian [script needed] (tarkasna), Sumerian 𒀲 (anše)). The lack of rhotacism of the single intervocalic -s- after a short vowel would point to a recent borrowing.
aile: asellus, asina, asinārius, asinīnus, asinus ad lyram, asinus asinum fricat, asinus in tegulīs, asinusca, pōns asinōrum, quī asinum nōn potest, strātum caedit
Neque egō hominēs magis asinōs umquam vīdī[…]quōs quom feriās, tibi plūs noceās.
Quid tū autem huic, asine, auscultās?
Quid nunc tē, asine, litterās doceam? Nōn opus est verbīs, sed fustibus.
stupid, dense, dumb, thick, dim · foolish, silly, daft
çekim: karşılaştırma dummere · üstünlük dummest
köken: From Old Danish dumb, dum, from Old Norse dumbr (“dumb”), and in the main sense stupid from German dumm. Both from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare Norwegian and Swedish dum, Icelandic dumbur, English dumb, Low German dumm, Dutch dom, German dumm.