köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bīstius, a masculine form of bīstia, from Latin bēstia (“beast”). Compare English beast. Compare with the inherited doublet bicha and the direct borrowing bestia.
aile: bichito, bicho bolita, bicho de cesto, bicho de luz, bicho malo, bicho raro, bichofeo, matabichos, todo bicho viviente
köken: From *bȫgček, where -ček is a diminutive suffix, from Proto-Turkic *bȫg (“insect”). Cognate with Tatar бөҗәк (böcäk, “insect”), Kazakh бөжек (böjek, “insect”), Azerbaijani böcək, Turkmen möjek, Crimean Tatar böcek, Turkish böcek (“insect”), etc.
bug, insect (any small arthropod such as insects, spiders, etc.) · insect (contemptible, repulsive person) · someone who is obsessed with something
eş: 버러지
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 벌에〮 (Yale: pèlGéy), from immediately pre-Middle Korean *pèlkéy; the majority of modern dialects still preserve the */-k-/. Beyond the written record, both Middle Korean and all modern dialects have at least two words meaning "bug": a form descended from *pèlkéy, and another form descended from *pèlkècí > Middle Korean…
vermin (insect) · insect (any arthropod of class Insecta)
çekim: çoğul insekty · tamlayan insekta
eş: owad, robak, robal
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin īn- Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Italic *sekaō Latin secō Latin īnsecō Latin īnsectus Latin īnsectumlbor. Polish insekt Learned borrowing from Latin īnsectum.
köken: Derived with the suffix + -ains (and made into a masculine 2nd-declension noun in -is) from an old verb *kukt (“to bend, to be/become bent, twisted”), from Proto-Baltic *kuk-, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *kū-, *ku- (“to bend, to flex”). Alongside kukt, there are other verbs derived from the same stem that refer to ways of moving around: kukņāties (dialectal) “to huddle up, to roll up, to…
arachnid · generic term for insect-like organisms · generic term for aquatic invertebrates
köken: From Proto-Southwestern Tai *mlɛːŋᴬ (“insect”) which /-l-/ is dropped, from Proto-Tai *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”), which is either from Middle Chinese 螟蛉 (MC meng leng, “caterpillar”) or native Tai borrowed into Chinese. Doublet of แมลง (má-lɛɛng). Cognate with Lao ແມງ (mǣng), Tai Dam ꪵꪣꪉ, Tai Nüa ᥛᥦᥒᥰ (mäeng), Zhuang nengz.