köken: Inherited from Middle French vif, from Old French vif, from Latin vīvus (“alive, living”), from Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”).
healthy · energetic · in a good mood; peppy; lively
köken: From Middle Chinese compound 元氣 (MC ngjwon khj+jH, literally “first, fundamental, source + vapor, spirit, energy”). In Chinese cosmology, this represented the fundamental force that permeates all matter and life. Early Japanese borrowed this word and meaning. Later, this spelling was conflated with the meaning of homophone 減気 (genki, “recovery from illness”), adding in the modern senses related…
brisk, lively, breezy, cheery · synonym of runsas (“significant, sizable; just over”)
çekim: karşılaştırma reippaampi · üstünlük reippain
köken: Unknown. Possibly in some way related to (if so, probably as a borrowing from) Proto-Germanic *rībaz (“generous”) or older *reyp-os, albeit a connection is phonologically and semantically unlikely.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti Proto-Italic *gʷīwō Latin vīvō Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s Proto-Italic *-āks Latin -āx Latin vīvāx From vīvō (“to live, to be alive”) + -āx (“inclined to”).