youth (quality or state of being young; part of life following childhood) · youth (young people collectively)
köken: From Middle High German jugent, from Old High German jugund, from Proto-West Germanic *jugunþi, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþiz. Akin to Old Saxon juguth, English youth.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic молодежь (molodežĭ), from Proto-Slavic *moldežь, from *moldъ (“young”) + *-ežь. By surface analysis, молодо́й (molodój) + -ёжь (-jóžʹ). Compare Polish młodzież.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 져므니 (Yale: cyemuni). From the adjective 젊— (jeom-, “to be young”), Middle Korean 졈다 (Yale: cyemta).
A youth, a young man, young woman, young adult (between ages 20-40), (older than an adulescens but younger than a senior/senex)
çekim: çoğul iuvenēs · tamlayan iuvenum
zıt: senex
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-u Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō Proto-Italic *juwō Latin iuvenis Inherited from Proto-Italic *juwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”). Cognate with Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Persian جوان (javân), Old Irish óc (early OIr: óac), Old English ġeong (whence English young). The…