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: Inherited from Middle French beau, from Old French biau, bel, from Latin bellus.
aile: a beau mentir qui vient de loin, à belles dents, à la belle étoile, après la pluie, le beau temps, au beau fixe, au beau milieu de, avoir beau, avoir beau jeu, avoir de beaux jours devant soi, beau comme le jour
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: /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.…
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…