köken: From Middle High German künec, from Old High German kuning (rarer kunig), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The development Old High German -ning → later -nig is regular (see Pfennig). The modern vocalism -ö- is chiefly Central and Low German; compare Middle Low German köninc, from Old Saxon kuning. Cognate with Old Dutch kuning (whence Dutch koning), Old English…
köken: Inherited from Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin rēgem.
aile: être plus royaliste que le roi, fête des Rois, Filles du Roi, fou du roi, galette des rois, procureur du roi, roi des animaux, roi des cailles, roi des oiseaux, roi fainéant
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish rey, from Latin rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.
aile: a cuerpo de rey, a rey muerto, rey puesto, adoración de los Reyes, aquí del rey, astro rey, caballerizo mayor del rey, cámara del rey, capa de rey, capellán mayor del rey, casa del rey
king (male monarch) · king · king, magnate (man who excels in something)
eş: sovrano, monarca, regnante, sire, maestà, imperatore
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Italic *rēks Latin rēx Italian re Inherited from Latin rēx, via the nominative singular, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of rege, which was borrowed from Latin via the accusative rēgem.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъnędzь, borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The feminine form княги́ня (knjagínja, “princess”) has preserved the original, Germanic g sound. Doublet of ксёндз (ksjondz), a borrowing from Polish, and ко́нунг (kónung).
aile: княги́ня, княже́ние, княжени́ка, кня́жество, кня́жить, кня́жич, княжна́, вели́кий кня́зь, из гря́зи в кня́зи
king (male monarch) · king (chess piece) · king (playing card)
çekim: çoğul reis
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Italic *rēks Latin rex Old Galician-Portuguese rei Portuguese rei Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rei, from Latin rēgem (“king”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“rules”). Compare Galician and Fala rei.
aile: à-d'el-rei, aqui-d'el-rei, aqui-del-rei, astro-rei, bolo-rei, charuto-do-rei, círio-do-rei, desporto-rei, Dia de Reis, el-rei
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek βασιλιάς < βασιλέας (basiléas) with synizesis [ʎa] to avoid hiatus. From Ancient Greek βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, leader, prince, emperor”), from Proto-Hellenic *gʷatiléus; the word, attested in some form since Mycenaean times, is of uncertain ultimate etymology; possibly of Anatolian origin. Also see βασίλισσα (basílissa, “queen”).
köken: From Old Swedish drotin (with -in interpreted as the definite suffix), from Old Norse dróttinn, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz. Related to dryg (lasting, heavy).
king (male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy) · king and queen as a married couple · king (person that is the best within a given group)
çekim: çoğul królowie · tamlayan króla
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *karaz Proto-Germanic *karilazder. Old High German Karlder. Proto-Slavic *kõrľь Old Polish król ▲ English kingsl. ▲ French roisl. ▲ German Königsl. Polish król Inherited from Old Polish król. Noun 2 sense 2, noun 2 sense 3, and noun 2 sense 4 and are an internationalism semantic loan; compare English king, French roi and German König.…
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köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”). Compare also Aromanian popã, pãpã. Or alternatively, from Latin popa, papa, hence its presence in other neighbour languages. Doublet of papă.
king (a male monarch; member of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation) · king
çekim: çoğul királyok
köken: Borrowed from South Slavic, probably from Serbo-Croatian. Cognate with contemporary Serbo-Croatian krȃlj, Slovene králj, Turkish kral, Bulgarian крал (kral), Slovak kráľ, from Proto-Slavic *korľь (“king”), itself from Old High German Karl, the name of the Frankish ruler Charlemagne.