köken: Inherited from Middle French baiser, from Old French baisier, from Latin bāsiāre (“to kiss”). As far as the verb is concerned, the meaning “fuck” arose via euphemism and has become the dominant sense.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *h₃émh₃ti Proto-Italic *amō Latin amō Old Spanish amar Spanish amar Inherited from Old Spanish amar, from Latin amāre.
sweetness (the condition of being sweet) · sweetness (the quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses; pleasantness, agreeableness) · sweetness, sweet (term of address)
çekim: çoğul γλύκες · tamlayan γλύκας
zıt: πίκρα
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek γλύκα (glúka). By surface analysis, γλυκός (glykós) + -α (-a).
貴方, 貴女, 貴男: you (second-person pronoun) · 貴女: (to a female) you · 貴男: (to a male) you
köken: Compound of あ (a, distal pronoun marker, indicating something far away from both speaker and listener; also found in あれ (are, “that”, far away), あそこ (asoko, “there”, far away), etc.) + な (na, possessive, ancient compounding alternative for (and possibly derived from) particle の (no)) + た (ta, “direction, side, place”, only found in ancient terms; possibly contracted from 方 (kata)). Originally…
köken: Of native Korean origin. Potentially derived from familiar case of 여보세요 (yeoboseyo), indicative of a request for attention from the spouse to view something performed or viewed by the first party.
to love (romantically or otherwise – same tone as in English) · to make love
çekim: geçmiş älskade · ortaç älskad · ulaç älskande
köken: From Old Swedish ælska, from Old Norse ælska (Compare Old West Norse elska). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aliskōną (“to care for, cultivate, cherish”).
köken: From Proto-Italic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mel-it (“honey”), with the athematic suffix *-it that indicates comestible substances (compare Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰ-it (“barley”) or Proto-Indo-European *sép-it (“wheat”)). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr), Hittite [script needed] (milit), Luwian [script needed] (mallit-).
to be in love · to make love (to engage in sexual intercourse)
köken: Inherited from Malay bercinta, from Classical Malay bercinta. Equivalent to ber- + cinta. The sense “to make love” is perhaps a semantic loan from English make love.
köken: There are cognates in Tho lects, e.g. Cuối Tân Hợp Ɂiew³⁵ (Nguyễn Hữu Hoành et al., 2022), with the meaning of "beautiful, pretty". Considering its cognates' meaning, the Vietnamese verb is probably a semantic extension of adjectival Chinese 妖 (yêu, “charming”) as seen in yêu kiều (妖嬌, “charming, graceful”).