the lastborn of a family’s children, especially when pampered (as goes the cliché)
çekim: tamlayan Nesthäkchens
eş: Benjamin, Schoßkind
köken: From earlier Nesthöckelchen, from Nesthocker, from Nest (“nest”) + hocken (“to sit, squat”) + -er. In the contemporary form reanalysable as Nest + Häkchen (“little hook”).
köken: Via a Mongolic source (compare Buryat хэнзэ (xenze, “autumn-born small livestock”), from Proto-Turkic *kēnč (“young”), which is borrowed from Sogdian 𐫐𐫗𐫝 (knc, “young”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“new, fresh”). Cognate with Siberian Tatar кинцә (kintsä), Kazakh кенже (kenje), Kyrgyz кенже (kenje), Kumyk генже (genje), Southern Altai кенје (kenǰe), Tuvan хенче (xençe), Uzbek…
Benjamin (Biblical character, mythological son of Jacob) · The youngest child of a family, the youngest person of a group. · a male given name
köken: From Middle Dutch benjamin, from Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right/south or son of days”).
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic мѣзинъ (mězinŭ), from Proto-Slavic *mězinъ. A derivation from Latin mediānus is improbable. Cognates include Russian мизинный (mizinnyj).