köken: From Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), from the root of modern Hof (“court”). Cognate with Yiddish היפּש (hipsh). The term was probably borrowed into written Middle High German from Middle Dutch hovesch via West Central German, in which process the Central German -v- was hypercorrectly replaced with -b-. The somewhat younger Middle High German hövesch, in line with hof (“court”), led to…
aile: aufhübschen, Hübschheit
Das wäre doch hübsch, wenn…
Es iſt gar huͤbſch von einem großen Herrn / So menſchlich mit dem Teufel ſelbſt zu ſprechen.
köken: Inherited from Middle French beau, from Old French biau, bel, from Latin bellus.
aile: a beau mentir qui vient de loin, à belles dents, à la belle étoile, après la pluie, le beau temps, au beau fixe, au beau milieu de, avoir beau, avoir beau jeu, avoir de beaux jours devant soi, beau comme le jour
well (adverbial form of bueno) · well; fine; okay (state of being satisfied with the status quo) · properly
çekim: çoğul bienes
zıt: mal
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin *duenēd Latin bene Old Spanish bien Spanish bien Inherited from Old Spanish bien, from Latin bene (“well”), Old Latin *duenēd, from duenos (“good”), which gave bonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.
aile: antes bien, bien así, bien así como, bien como, bien cuidado, bien de, bien dispuesto, bien dotado, bien es verdad, bien está
köken: Borrowed from Parthian nʾz (nāz, “pleasure, delight”) or inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (nʾz- /nāz-/, “to take pleasure, to delight”, whence the verb نازیدن (nâzidan)), both from Proto-Iranian *nāz- (“to be coquettish”). No Indo-European etymology per Cheung 2007. Compare Old Armenian նազիմ (nazim), an Iranian borrowing.
aile: ناز و نیاز, ناز کردن, نازی, نازیدن
تا سر نکنم در سرت ای مایهٔ ناز کوته نکنم ز دامنت دست نیاز هرچند که راهم به تو دورست و دراز در راه بمیرم و نگردم ز تو باز
to be good-hearted, to be kind, to be nice · to be good, to be pleasing · to be smart, to be intelligent
eş: 선하다
köken: First attested in the Gyechuk ilgi (癸丑日記 / 계축일기), c. 1600 , as Early Modern Korean 착ᄒᆞ다 (Yale: chak-hota), combining adjective-forming ᄒᆞ다 (Yale: hota), with cranberry morpheme 착 (chak). Equivalent to modern 착 (chak) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives). Other than this unusually early attestation, the word only reappears after c. 1700. The original manuscript of the Gyechuk…
good (having pleasing or suitable qualities) · healthy or recovered (from an illness or injury or the like), well · quite large in extent or degree, good, goodly
çekim: karşılaştırma bättre · üstünlük bäst
köken: Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from Low German brav; from French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo.
çekim: karşılaştırma pulchrior · üstünlük pulcherrimus
köken: Uncertain. The earlier form polcer is traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *porkros, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s or Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, from the root *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation of the first *-r- into *-l-. De Vaan has questioned this change, thinking that the second *r should have disappeared instead, and thus leaves this term without an etymology.…