having effeminate or flamboyant qualities; fruity, queer, swishy
çekim: karşılaştırma schwuler · üstünlük am schwulsten
eş: warm, lesbisch, warm, uncool
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German swōl, swūl (“sultry, hot and humid”) (17th century), adopted into Standard German as schwül in the 18th century, ultimately from the root of schwelen (“to smoulder”). The older form without umlaut appears in Berlin dialect in the 19th century in the current sense, building on the slang term warm (as in warmer Bruder) for ‘homosexual’. The earliest attestation of…
köken: From Old French gai, from Old Occitan gai, from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”); or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”), both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz (“lively, fast, quick”); or (per Liberman, Chance, Meier) from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] → [ɡ] as in French gaine. Doublet of vague in that case. Cognate with English…
aile: antigai, avoir la cuisse gaie, égayer, gai comme un pinson, gaiement, gaieté
köken: From Late Latin fēnuculum (contracted to a later Vulgar Latin form *fenuclum), from a diminutive of Latin fēnum. The slang sense is of Tuscan origin and probably derives from the archaic meaning “worthless person”, although many different folk etymologies exist.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *ganhuzder. Old Occitan gaibor. Old French gaibor. Middle English gay English gaybor. Polish gej Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-iškas Proto-Slavic *-ьskъ Old Polish -ski Polish -ski Polish -owski Polish gejowski…
köken: Internationalism, coined as German homosexual, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”) + Latin sexualis (“sexual”). By surface analysis, homo- + sexuálny.