köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbonbor. German Bonbon Borrowed from French bonbon.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbon Reduplication of bon (“good”). Compare English goodies. The standard rule in French is to write ⟨m⟩ in front of bilabial consonants (/m/, /p/, /b/). This rule does not apply to the words derived from bon, including…
aile: bonbonnerie, bonbonnier, bonbonnière, coûter bonbon, rose bonbon
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic сласть (slastĭ), from Proto-Slavic *solstь. The native Old East Slavic *солость (*solostĭ) is unattested, but is the source of солости́ть (solostítʹ).
caramel (confection) · candy made of caramel · any candy
çekim: çoğul caramelos
eş: carambina
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese caramelo, from Late Latin calamellum, diminutive of Latin calamus, or alternatively from Early Medieval Latin cannamellis (“honey cane”), probably from Latin canna + mellis, genitive of mel (“honey”).
caramel (a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky) · caramel (a piece of this confection)
çekim: çoğul караме́лі · tamlayan караме́лі
köken: Borrowed from Russian караме́ль (karamélʹ), from French caramel.
a reed, cane · an object made from a reed, such as a reed pen, arrow, or fishing rod · a stalk, straw, blade
çekim: çoğul calamī · tamlayan calamī
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱélh₂m̥ Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos)bor. Latin calamus Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of culmus. Compare calamīna.
köken: From Low German Bolltje, diminutive of Boll (“roundish object”), from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ, whence also Danish bolle. Compare the form Bollchen (“hard candy”) in northern colloquial German. Also cognate with Dutch bolletje.