clown, acrobat, entertainer, performer · mask in traditional plays
köken: First attested in the History of Goryeo (고려사/高麗史), 1451, as Middle Korean 廣大 (Yale: kwangtay). The History is written based on earlier sources and the word is cited in relation to an early 14th-century figure, so the word was probably used at that time. : The hanja form 廣大, sometimes still used, is unetymological. In the hangul script, first attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъlbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *stl̥b-, an ablaut variant of *stelb (“post, pole, jamb”) (whence also stilbs, q.v.), from *stel- (“to put in a standing position, to erect; standing, immobile, stiff”) with an extra b. The semantic evolution was probably: “motionless, stiff” > “surprised, stunned” > “stupid”. Cognates include Old Irish borb (“foolish, silly”), Latvian…
brute, ass, asshole, idiot · herd of cattle · head of cattle, animal of the species Bos taurus
çekim: çoğul barmok
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Old Turkic barım (“riches”).
köken: From Proto-Italic *gʷordos (“stubborn, heavy”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥dos, variant of *gʷrd-u- (“slow, heavy, tired”), though De Vaan acknowledges that the cognates point to a u-stem instead of an o-stem as in Latin. The PIE root is also uncertain. Quintilian called it a "Spanish" (possibly Iberian) word. Compare Lithuanian gurdùs, Latvian gur̃ds (“tired”), Proto-Slavic *gъ̑rdъ…
aile: gurdōnicus
Item in Cacomnemone: Hic est (inquit) ille gurdus, quem ego me abhinc menses duos ex Africa venientem excepisse tibi narravi.
Et gurdos, quos pro stolidis accipit vulgus, ex Hispania duxisse originem audivi.