köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-der. Latin langueō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin languiduslbor. Spanish lánguido Learned borrowing from Latin languidus.
köken: ⟨monousi⟩ → /monouɕi/ → /monouki/ → /monoui/ From Early Middle Japanese adjective 物憂(ものう)し (monōshi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). In turn from 物 (mono-, a prefix added to adjectives) +…
köken: Derived from Old Ruthenian кволи (kvoli), with a semantic shift from “according to one’s will or abilities” to “slow” and then to “weak”, comparable to the shift of the meaning of пові́льно (povílʹno). Related to покво́лом (pokvólom), спокво́лу (spokvólu), спокволя́ (spokvoljá). Cognate of Belarusian кво́лы (kvóly), Polish gwoli.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-der. Latin langueō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin languidus From langueō (“to be tired, sluggish”) + -idus.