köken: From Old French gai, from Old Occitan gai, from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”); or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”), both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz (“lively, fast, quick”); or (per Liberman, Chance, Meier) from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] → [ɡ] as in French gaine. Doublet of vague in that case. Cognate with English…
aile: antigai, avoir la cuisse gaie, égayer, gai comme un pinson, gaiement, gaieté
gay man (male homosexual) · effeminate man · user, forum user, social media user; often mistakenly understood as a shortening of 게시판 이용자 (gesipan iyongja, “forum user”).
a homosexual male; gay, fag, queer, poof · a (male) person with an obsession for something, märkesbög ("brand fag"), prylbög ("gadget fag") · a prison informant, in the compound golbög; snitch, rat
köken: Uncertain: * One proposed source is månsing bög (“dupe”). * Another is French bougre (“scoundrel”), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“heretic”). * also compare dialectal böj (“leather bag”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *ganhuzder. Old Occitan gaibor. Old French gaibor. Middle English gay English gaybor. Polish gej Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-iškas Proto-Slavic *-ьskъ Old Polish -ski Polish -ski Polish -owski Polish gejowski…
Internationalism, coined as German homosexual, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”) + Latin sexualis (“sexual”). By surface analysis, homo- + sexuálny.