köken: From Middle High German antrëche, from Old High German anutrëhho (“male duck, drake”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with dialectal German Drache (“male duck, drake”), Low German drake (“male duck, drake”), Middle English drake (“male duck”). By surface analysis, Ente + -rich. More at drake.
köken: Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَّطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بَت (bat, “duck”). Sense of "homosexual" may be related to the Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “to suffer, to be passive”).
aile: agarrar de pato, al agua, patos, cola de pato, flor de pato, hacerse el pato, pagar el pato, patería, patito, patico, pato mandarín
duck: bird of the family Anatidae. · the plant Alternanthera sessilis of the family Amaranthaceae. · the plant Alternanthera bettzickiana of the family Amaranthaceae.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Southwestern Tai *petᴰˢ² (“duck”), from Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”). The vowel of เป็ด [pet̚ᴰˢ¹] shows irregularity as a reflex of Proto-Tai *pitᴰ. Such reflexes in Southwestern Tai such as Thai and many Central Tai dialects suggest that this etymon might in fact be a post-Proto-Tai loan. The unaspirated /p-/ indicates an early date of borrowing. In Southwestern Tai, cognate…