köken: From Middle High German billich, from Old High German billīh (“appropriate”), from a suffixed form of Proto-West Germanic *bil(i) (“merciful, kind, decent, fair”).
aile: spottbillig
Die Strafe ist billig und recht.
In Deutschland sind Lebensmittel billiger als in andern europäischen Ländern.
Das Vorgehen der Regierung ist ein billiges Ablenkungsmanöver.
köken: Inherited from Latin captīvus (“captive” → “caught by the devil” → “bad”). Compare the semantic development of French chétif (“puny, scrawny”) and Galician cativo.
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (SLYA) / [script needed] (wt' /wad/, “bad, evil”), from Proto-Iranian *watah, with further origin uncertain. Akin to Old Armenian վատ (vat), an Iranian borrowing. Unrelated to English bad, despite phonetic and semantic similarity.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yaman (“bad”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaman, “bad”); Bashkir яман (yaman), Karakalpak жаман (jaman) / jaman, Kyrgyz жаман (jaman), Karachay-Balkar аман (aman), Uzbek yomon, Azerbaijani and Turkish yaman, etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yaman (“bad”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaman, “bad”); Bashkir яман (yaman), Karakalpak жаман (jaman) / jaman, Kazakh жаман (jaman), Karachay-Balkar аман (aman), Uzbek yomon, Azerbaijani, Turkish yaman, etc.
köken: From Persian ناچار (nâčâr, “without choice; helpless”). Cognate with Tatar начар (naçar), Kyrgyz начар (nacar), Kazakh нашар (naşar), Uzbek nochor, Uyghur ناچار (nachar, “bad”), etc.
köken: 吸(す)い (sui, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 吸(す)う (suu, “to suck; to smoke”)) + 殻(から) (kara, “remnant”). The kara changes to gara as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
bad, poor (of low quality, not very useful or effective; incompetent, unskilled, untalented) · bad (not suitable, fitting or appropriate) · bad, unpleasant, wicked