köken: Uncertain. The word does not occur in Middle Persian writings, except possibly in the Dēnkard, a 10th-century compendium, where it can be interpreted as "nihility"; whence it would be inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pwc /pūč/). The word became widespread in Iranian varieties first in the fifteenth century onward, but existed before it. Possibly from the onomatopoetic…
sad, sorrowful · 愛しい: (archaic or dialect) beloved, dear · 愛しい: (archaic, possibly obsolete) deeply moving
köken: ⟨kanasiki₁⟩ → /kanasiki/ → /kanaɕiː/ From Old Japanese 悲し (kanasi-, “emotionally overwhelming: dear, beloved, sad”), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kanasi- (“beloved, dear”). First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE. Historically also meant "dear; beloved; lovely", in addition to "sad". The former senses were later taken over by other adjectives such as 愛らしい (airashii), 愛しい (itoshii), and 可愛い…
vain (overly concerned with one's appearance or reputation) · futile, vain (having no chance of success)
çekim: karşılaştırma fåfängare · üstünlük fåfängast
köken: From Old Swedish fafænger, equivalent to past participle of få (“few”) + få (“receive”), thus originally "[which] received little". Compare etymology of eldfängd and befängd. Attested since the mid-14th century in the sense "futile". Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fåfengd.