baby (infant) · baby (term of endearment for a lover)
çekim: çoğul Babys · tamlayan Babys
eş: Säugling, Kind, Schatz, Liebling, Babe, Braut
köken: Mid-19th-century borrowing from English baby. The use as a term of endearment is a later borrowing from late-20th-century pop culture; it remains far more common in pop music than in real life.
eş: bambin, bout de chou, nourrisson, petit, petit bout, petit bout de chou
köken: Nickname given to Nicolas Ferry, renowned throughout Europe as the court dwarf of the Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński. Possibly derived from bab- (babiller, babine) rather than adapted from English baby, although this may have contributed to the diffusion of the word.
aile: bébé Cadum, dormir comme un bébé, jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain, refiler le bébé
puppy · cub (the young of certain other animals, generally mammals) · pup (young of foxes, seals or sea lions)
çekim: çoğul cachorros
köken: Uncertain. Likely inherited from Vulgar Latin *cattulus, from Latin catŭlus (“whelp, puppy”), plus the suffix -orro; whence also Portuguese cachorro. If so, a doublet of cacho (“chub”). An alternative link to Basque txakur, xakur (“puppy”) has been proposed, but it is often dismissed as speculative.
köken: From Middle Dutch jonc, from Old Dutch junc, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós. Compare German jung, English young, Danish ung, Icelandic ungur.
aile: jong geleerd is oud gedaan, jonge hond, jongeheer, verjongen
köken: From Byzantine Greek κουτάβιον (koutábion), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from an element *kut- of Slavic origin (compare Bulgarian ку́че (kúče, “dog”)) + a suffix -άβιον (-ávion). Likely not related to κόττᾰβος (kóttăbos, “cottabus (game)”).
köken: First attested in the Gugeupganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 1489, as Middle Korean 가ᇰ아지 (Yale: kang.aci). From 가히 (Yale: kahi, “dog”) (> 개 (gae)) + -ᅌᅡ지 (Yale: -ngaci, diminutive suffix).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *katelos Latin catulus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin catellus From catulus (“whelp, puppy, young dog”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).