köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 것ᄫᅡᅀᅵ〮 (Yale: kèsWàzí). The Jeju language forms 걸버시 (geolbeosi) and 걸바시 (geolbasi), which are clearly cognate to but cannot be directly descended from the Middle Korean form (which show later inter-sonorant lenition of /p/ and /s/ to /β/ and /z/), implies that the first element was derived from Sino-Korean 乞 (geol, “to…
köken: keppi (“cane”) + kerjäläinen (“beggar”); keppi may be understood to refer to a beggar's cane, but it also alliterates with kerjäläinen, and may thus be only a fortifier
köken: Inherited from Proto-Italic *pawoparos (a thematic adjective, which was switched to the third declension in Latin analogically), from a compound beginning with Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (compare English few). The origin of the second element, -per, is less certain, but probably *perh₃- (“to grant, bestow, provide”) (compare Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, “to supply, grant, pay”)),…
aile: pauperculus, pauperiēs, paupertās
Illa vērō nōn est paupertās, sī laeta est; nōn quī parum habet, sed quī plūs cupit, pauper est.
Etymology tree Middle High German sefēr Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂kos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀkas Proto-Slavic *-akъ Old Polish -ak Polish -ak Polish żebrak From Middle High German sefēr + Polish -ak.