çekim: karşılaştırma alberner · üstünlük am albernsten
köken: From Middle High German alwære, from Old High German alawāri (“friendly, good-natured”), from a compound of Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”) + *wēraz (“true; friendly”). The final -n is an original case ending that was added to the stem in German Low German territory (compare schüchtern). Close cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 (allawērei, “sincerity, simplicity”); for a similar semantic association…
köken: Representing a Norman pronunciation of benoît, originally meaning "blessed", then "sanctimonious, blissful, etc." before descending into this term. For semantic development, perhaps compare etymology of English silly.
köken: First attested in James Scarth Gale's Korean-English Dictionary, 1897. The etymology is unclear. The second element is clearly the derogatory agentive suffix -보 (-bo) (cf. 먹— (meok-, “to eat”) > 먹보 (meokbo, “glutton”)), but the first element is uncertain. Two hypotheses have been suggested (Cho Hang-beom 2019, pp. 161—164): * Dropping of the final consonant in 밥 (bap, “rice; food”), with the…
köken: From Old Swedish dāre, from Old Norse dári, Middle Low German dore, from Old Saxon *dōro, from Proto-West Germanic *dauʀō. See also German Tor; Icelandic dári, Danish dåre.
stupid, dense, dumb, thick, dim · foolish, silly, daft
çekim: karşılaştırma dummere · üstünlük dummest
köken: From Old Danish dumb, dum, from Old Norse dumbr (“dumb”), and in the main sense stupid from German dumm. Both from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare Norwegian and Swedish dum, Icelandic dumbur, English dumb, Low German dumm, Dutch dom, German dumm.