a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents · goblin, leprechaun, gnome, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin · charisma (the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm)
çekim: çoğul duendes
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.
dwarf (small human; small specimen, breed or species of animal) · dwarf (small folkloristic humanoid)
çekim: çoğul dwergen
köken: From Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz. Compare West Frisian dwerch, German Zwerg, English dwarf, Danish dværg.
çekim: karşılaştırma törpébb · üstünlük legtörpébb
köken: Nominalization of the present participle (formed with -e (obsolete present-participle suffix)) of an unattested stem, from töpik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”) + -r (frequentative suffix); compare töpörödik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”). The current form developed by metathesis and the reduction of the second vowel.…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Basque, from Latin nānus (“dwarf”), from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos, “dwarf”).
aile: nanotu
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جوجه (cüce), from Classical Persian جوجه (jūja), interpreted as *-ę stem diminutive noun. Cognate with Macedonian џу́џе (džúdže).