köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbonbor. German Bonbon Borrowed from French bonbon.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbon Reduplication of bon (“good”). Compare English goodies. The standard rule in French is to write ⟨m⟩ in front of bilabial consonants (/m/, /p/, /b/). This rule does not apply to the words derived from bon, including…
aile: bonbonnerie, bonbonnier, bonbonnière, coûter bonbon, rose bonbon
sweet in taste · not brackish, not salted, fresh water (when qualifying water) · not salted (of foods which may be salted or not like bread, butter, almond)
zıt: γλυφός, αλμυρός
köken: Inherited from the medieval γλυκός (glukós), from Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) with metaplasm of ending as in adjectives in -ός (-ós). Compare to the formal modern usage of γλυκύς (glykýs).
köken: /kawajui/ → /kawaiː/ Shift in pronunciation from kawayui below. The kanji spelling 可愛い is an example of ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)), and uses an irregular reading of 愛. The phonological resemblance to Mandarin 可愛 (kě'ài), Min Nan 可愛 (khó-ài, “lovable”) is coincidental. Note that the medial -w- here is not an excrescence added between ka (可) and ai (愛), since the word is not formed from these morphemes.…
sweet (having the flavor typical of, e.g., sugar, or honey) · sweet (containing sugar, or some similar substance) · sweet (having the smell typical of, e.g., phlox flowers)
çekim: karşılaştırma saldāks · üstünlük vissaldākais
köken: Derived from a former verb *salt (“to be(come) sweet”) (compare Lithuanian sálti), which disappeared, possibly because of homophony with salt (“to be(come) cold”). It has the same stem as sāls (“salt”) (q.v.), with an extra d also found in other cognates. The meaning change of the verb salt was probably from “(being) salty, salted” to “having pleasant flavor, tasty” and then to “(being)…