köken: From Middle High German heiter, from Old High German heitar, from Proto-West Germanic *haidr, from Proto-Germanic *haidraz. Compare Old Norse heiðr, Old English hador and Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “bright, wonderful, multicolored”).
köken: Cognate with Tatar матур (matur, “beautiful”), Chuvash маттур (mattur, “strong, stout; dextrous; brave; beautiful”) and dialectal Kazakh матор (mator, “beautiful”). Presumably, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bagatur (“hero”).. If so, doublet of батыр (batır, “hero, brave”) and баһадир (bahadir, “brave, strong”). Irregular nasalization and preservation of a roundness-disharmonic high vowel could be…
Ул бик ҡиммәтле матур ынйы тапҡас, ҡайтып бар мөлкәтен һатҡан да, шул ынйыны алған.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 아ᄅᆞᆷ〮답다〮 (Yale: àlóm-tàptá), perhaps from 아ᄅᆞᆷ〮 (Yale: àlóm, “privateness; non-publicness”) + 답다〮 (Yale: tàptá, “to be as”, adjective-deriving suffix). The phonological match is exact, but the semantics are problematic. Other Middle Korean-based etymologies have been proposed but are unlikely due to Middle Korean pitch…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin *duenelos Latin bellus From Old Latin *duenelos, diminutive of duenos (“good”) (whence bonus (“idem”)). Compare typologically Russian хоро́шенький (xoróšenʹkij) (diminutive of хоро́ший (xoróšij)). Also compare приго́жий (prigóžij) (< *goditi, akin to го́дный (gódnyj), cognate with English good). See…