köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háy- Proto-Iranian *Háy- Persian آی Inherited from Proto-Iranian *Háy-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háy-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-.
child, kid · Used to refer to objects, typically in casual but polite settings such as when persuading a customer to buy a product. · less colloquial form of 애 (ae, “guy; person”)
eş: 아기, 소아
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 아ᄒᆡ〮 (Yale: àhóy), from earlier Old Korean 阿孩 (*ahoy). While the word is native, the second syllable was identified already in the 8th-century hyangga poem Anmin-ga with Middle Chinese 孩 (hoj, “child”). Historically, the word was often mistakenly perceived as Sino-Korean, with the spelling 兒孩, a phono-semantic matching.…
아이가 무엇을 가지고 놉니까?
마침내 새벽이 되어 아이의 이마를 만져보았을 때 그녀는 손바닥에 느껴지는 서늘함에 안도했고, 안방을 나가 거실 베란다로 드는 푸르스름한 박명을 물끄러미 바라보았다.
köken: From Proto-Tai *s.ʔwɤːjᴬ (“steam, vapor”). The short vowel in ไอ [ʔajᴬ²] is unexpected as a reflex of it. The Northern Tai and Central/Southwestern Tai may in fact be unrelated. In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Lao ໄອ (ʼai), Lü ᦀᦻ (˙ʼaay), Shan ဢၢႆ (ʼǎai), Tai Nüa ᥟᥣᥭ (ʼaay), Ahom 𑜒𑜩 (ʼay).