sweet in taste · not brackish, not salted, fresh water (when qualifying water) · not salted (of foods which may be salted or not like bread, butter, almond)
zıt: γλυφός, αλμυρός
köken: Inherited from the medieval γλυκός (glukós), from Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) with metaplasm of ending as in adjectives in -ός (-ós). Compare to the formal modern usage of γλυκύς (glykýs).
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective 甘(あま)し (amashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE. From Proto-Japonic *ama.
aile: 飴
甘いケーキ
女子に甘い
作りが甘い ― tsukuri ga amai ― the construction is careless → flimsy, slapdash, slipshod
sweet (of the taste of sugar) · cute (in appearance) · cute, sweet (of behavior or an act or the like)
çekim: karşılaştırma sötare · üstünlük sötast
zıt: salt
köken: From Old Swedish söter, from Old Norse sœtr, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus. Compare English sweet, German süß.
aile: sötsak
Socker är / smakar sött
Jag tror jag hade i lite för mycket socker. Den blev extremt söt.
köken: From Proto-Uralic *ipsɜ or *ipśɜ (“smell, taste”), the same root as the noun íz (“taste”) + -es (adjective-forming suffix), hence a doublet of ízes.
sweet (having a pleasant taste) · sweet (connected with well-being) · sweet, nice (having a pleasant attitude)
çekim: karşılaştırma sødere · üstünlük sødest
köken: From Old Norse sœtr, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, cognate with Swedish söt, English sweet, German süß, Dutch zoet. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus, which is also the source of Latin suāvis, Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús), Sanskrit स्वादुः (svādúḥ).
sweet (having the flavor typical of, e.g., sugar, or honey) · sweet (containing sugar, or some similar substance) · sweet (having the smell typical of, e.g., phlox flowers)
çekim: karşılaştırma saldāks · üstünlük vissaldākais
köken: Derived from a former verb *salt (“to be(come) sweet”) (compare Lithuanian sálti), which disappeared, possibly because of homophony with salt (“to be(come) cold”). It has the same stem as sāls (“salt”) (q.v.), with an extra d also found in other cognates. The meaning change of the verb salt was probably from “(being) salty, salted” to “having pleasant flavor, tasty” and then to “(being)…