köken: From blanc + bec. Literally, “white mouth”, where bec (“beak”) informally means “mouth” (likewise in English slang, which see beak), either referring to the observation or belief that very young birds's beaks were white or referring to the area around the mouth of a White, beardless, young man, which has the white skin visible, not yet covered by a beard and mustache.
J'étais fini, foutu, échec / Et mat aux yeux d’Marilou / Qui m’traitait comme un blanc-bec
köken: Distorted from Arabic بَطَّال (baṭṭāl) or another word from the root ب ط ل (b ṭ l), or maybe from بَتَرَ (batara, “to cut off”) in view of Salamancan baldorro (“beast that one culls for being old or sick”), baldorras and boldregas (“tattered”), Aragonese and Spanish baldrés (“tanned sheep hide”), Portuguese and Galician baldréu (“goat-hide for gloves; depraved person”), Canarian baladrón…
köken: From angst (“fear”) + haas (“hare”), a calque of German Angsthase, which could be based on the hare’s flight instinct, but is usually thought to be an alteration of unattested *Angsthose, from Hose (“trousers, pants”); compare Dutch bangebroek, English shit one's pants.
köken: From feminine form of Ancient Greek κόττος (kóttos, “rooster, cock”). Doublet of κουτός (koutós, “stupid, dumb”).
aile: γελούν και οι κότες μαζί μου, ζωή και κότα, η γριά η κότα έχει το ζουμί, κοιμάμαι με τις κότες, κότα αλανιάρα, κοτάρα, κοτίτσα, κοτούλα, να φάνε και οι κότες, σαν την κότα στον μύλο
Η κότα και ο κόκορας ζευγαρώνουν.
Μη φοβάσαι, μωρή κότα. Δε θα σου κάνει τίποτα το σκυλί.
layman, rookie · novice (new member of a religious order)
çekim: çoğul nowicjusze · tamlayan nowicjusza
eş: żółtodziób, nowak
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Italic *nowos Latin novus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -īcius Latin novīciuslbor. Polish nowicjusz Learned borrowing from Latin novīcius.
köken: From Latin eunūchus, from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos, “eunuch, castrated animal”), εὐνή (eunḗ, “bed”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, keep, hold”); literally, a chamberlain (see ĉambelano).