köken: Borrowed from French diaphane, from Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) and φαίνω (phaínō, “show”).
köken: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) and φαίνω (phaínō, “show”).
köken: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 거믜〮줄〮 (Yale: kèmúy-cwúl), equivalent to modern 거미 (geomi, “spider”) + 줄 (jul, “string”).
smooth · soft, dainty, tender · fine (of a comb, sieve, etc.)
çekim: karşılaştırma míne · üstünlük is míne
köken: From Old Irish mín (“smooth”), from Proto-Celtic *mīnis (“soft, tender”), which is related to *meitos, from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).
aile: abhras mín, aiteann mín, bairneach mín, chomh mín le síoda, cíor mhín, craiceann bog mín, feochadán mín, greabhán mín, leathóg mhín, lus mín