eş: Leu, König der Wüste, Wüstenkönig, König der Tiere, Nobel
köken: From Middle High German lewe, löuwe, lauwe, from Old High German lewo, lēo, from Proto-West Germanic *lewo, *lēwo (“lion”). The spelling -ew- in Middle High German generally represents a diphthong [øy̯(w)], and accordingly the expected form in Modern German is Leu(e) (cf. freuen). The form Löwe with a monophthong and consonantal -w- is most readily explained from a long-vowel variant lēwe, which…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese leon (“lion”), from Latin leōnem (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of leu. Cognate with Galician and Spanish león among others.
form of λιοντάρι (liontári) (in set phrases and learned terms) · brave man · for the constellation and the given name, see Λέων (Léon)
çekim: çoğul λέοντες · tamlayan λέοντος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn) from the accusative singular τὸν (tòn) λέοντα (léonta). Also see λέοντας m (léontas), λιόντας m (lióntas), λεοντάρι n (leontári) & λιοντάρι n (liontári).
köken: From jalo (“(dialectal) large; (standard) noble”) + peura (“deer”); one of the many words first known to have been written down by Mikael Agricola when translating the New Testament into Finnish in the 16th century. The word was originally used of elks (moose) or other similar animals. The semantic shift may be motivated by astrology; the constellation Leo may have been identified as an elk in…
Teidän vastustajanne, perkele, käy ympäri niinkuin kiljuva jalopeura, etsien, kenen hän saisi niellä
lion in general (Panthera leo) · specifically, a male lion
çekim: çoğul lauvas · tamlayan lauvas
eş: zvēru ķēniņš
köken: Borrowed from Middle High German louwe (cf. German Löwe), from Proto-Germanic *laujan, a borrowing from Latin leō. It has been suggested, on the basis of Lithuanian liū̃tas (“lion”), Russian лю́тый зверь (ljútyj zverʹ, “beast, lion”), that there was an earlier Slavo-Balto-Germanic term with the root *liu-; if so, this term was lost very early on in Latvian, replaced by the Middle High German…