köken: Inherited from Latin captīvus (“captive” → “caught by the devil” → “bad”). Compare the semantic development of French chétif (“puny, scrawny”) and Galician cativo.
köken: From Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Persian سقرلاط (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”), from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum; or, alternatively, from Germanic.
scarlet (color) · a scarlet (cloth of scarlet color)
çekim: tamlayan scharlakans
köken: From Old Norse skarlak, which came via Middle Low German [Term?] from Medieval Latin scarlatum, probably from Arabic سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ), a variant of سِقِلّاط (siqillāṭ, “scarlet cloth”).
evil, wicked (whose behavior, attitude towards others is hostile, cruel, vile, criminal) · evil (expressing hatred, cruelty) · evil, bad (relating to, leading to something very undesirable, misfortune, sorrow; dangerous)
çekim: karşılaştırma ļaunāks · üstünlük visļaunākais
eş: slikts
zıt: labs
köken: From the stem of the verb ļaut (“to allow, to permit; to tolerate”) (q.v.), with a suffix *-no. The original meaning was probably “allowed (to do as s/he pleased), allowed (to let go)” (compare palaist (“to let go”), palaidnis (“naughty child”)). Cognates include Lithuanian liáunas, liaũnas (“flexible; slim, slender; weal; free, serene”).
aile: ļaunums
ļauns cilvēks
viens un tas pats cilvēks var būt vienā brīdī bezgala labs un otrā, neticami ļauns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- Middle French mal- French mal-bor. Esperanto mal- Esperanto ĉasta Esperanto malĉasta From mal- (“opposite of”) + ĉasta (“chaste”).