baby (infant) · baby (term of endearment for a lover)
çekim: çoğul Babys · tamlayan Babys
eş: Säugling, Kind, Schatz, Liebling, Babe, Braut
köken: Mid-19th-century borrowing from English baby. The use as a term of endearment is a later borrowing from late-20th-century pop culture; it remains far more common in pop music than in real life.
eş: bambin, bout de chou, nourrisson, petit, petit bout, petit bout de chou
köken: Nickname given to Nicolas Ferry, renowned throughout Europe as the court dwarf of the Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński. Possibly derived from bab- (babiller, babine) rather than adapted from English baby, although this may have contributed to the diffusion of the word.
aile: bébé Cadum, dormir comme un bébé, jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain, refiler le bébé
köken: From Middle Dutch jonc, from Old Dutch junc, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós. Compare German jung, English young, Danish ung, Icelandic ungur.
aile: jong geleerd is oud gedaan, jonge hond, jongeheer, verjongen
köken: Compound of 赤 (aka, “red”) + ちゃん (-chan, familiarizing suffix). Compare 赤ん坊 (akanbō) and 赤子 (akago), both of which also allude to the reddish complexion of a newborn. Compare also the similar formation of Malay anak merah (literally “child + red”). First cited to a text from 1856 or 1857.
chicken · chick · cub, youngling, nestling, whelp, young of an animal, or less commonly of people
çekim: çoğul puilor · tamlayan puiului
köken: Inherited from Latin pullus, probably through a Vulgar Latin root *pulleus, or alternatively formed from the plural of an original Romanian form *pul. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Compare Spanish pollo and Italian pollo.