köken: Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin. Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin negō Latin abnegō Latin abnegātus Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin abnegātorlbor. Polish abnegat Learned borrowing from Latin abnegātor. First attested in 1806. By surface analysis, abnegacja + -at
donkey, ass (Equus asinus) · donkey, stupid person
çekim: çoğul aasit · tamlayan aasin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish asne or asni (Swedish åsna), from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552).
köken: From rūs (“the country”) + -cola (“cultivator, dweller”). The latter comes from colō (“to till, cultivate”) and the agent-noun-forming suffix -a.
buffoon, fool; boor · confused, bewildered, person
çekim: çoğul abhlóirí · tamlayan abhlóra
köken: From Old Irish oblóir, ablóir, oblaire m (“juggler”), possibly from obull (“juggler's ball”), a variant of ubull (“apple”) (compare modern úll).
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto kamparano Latin -āceus Latin -aceum Italian -accioder. Esperanto -aĉ- Esperanto kamparanaĉo From kamparano (“rural person”) + -aĉ- (“of low quality”).
A schlub, a boorish bumpkin, particularly if not Jewish.
köken: From Polish żłób (“manger, trough; furrow, large groove in the soil”). Originated in klezmer musician cant (Klezmer-loshn). The nature of the semantic shift from "manger, crib" to "boorish goy" remains unclear. In any case, by the year 1869, it had become common enough to be included in a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in Zhytomyr. Jewish immigrants brought the word to the United States,…