köken: From Middle High German blode, from Old High German blōdi, from Proto-Germanic *blauþijaz, *blauþaz (“weak, soft, timid”). Cognate with Old English blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), English blate (“bashful, stupid”) and bloat (“be swollen, be worthless”) and Danish blød (“soft”).
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…
donkey, ass (domestic animal) · a jackass (stupid person)
çekim: çoğul åsnor · tamlayan åsnas
köken: Etymology tree Latin asinus Old French asnebor. Old Norse asni Swedish åsna Inherited from Old Norse asni, borrowed from Old French asne, from Latin asinus.
donkey, ass · ass, cretin, idiot, dolt, blockhead, donkey (a slow-witted, inept person)
çekim: çoğul asinī · tamlayan asinī
eş: iūmentum, onager, onagrus
köken: Usually compared to Ancient Greek ὄνος (ónos) (which cannot be its direct ancestor), and, just like other IE words for "ass", must be traced back to an unknown substrate source in Asia Minor (compare Hieroglyphic Luwian [script needed] (tarkasna), Sumerian 𒀲 (anše)). The lack of rhotacism of the single intervocalic -s- after a short vowel would point to a recent borrowing.
aile: asellus, asina, asinārius, asinīnus, asinus ad lyram, asinus asinum fricat, asinus in tegulīs, asinusca, pōns asinōrum, quī asinum nōn potest, strātum caedit
Neque egō hominēs magis asinōs umquam vīdī[…]quōs quom feriās, tibi plūs noceās.
Quid tū autem huic, asine, auscultās?
Quid nunc tē, asine, litterās doceam? Nōn opus est verbīs, sed fustibus.