köken: From Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), from the root of modern Hof (“court”). Cognate with Yiddish היפּש (hipsh). The term was probably borrowed into written Middle High German from Middle Dutch hovesch via West Central German, in which process the Central German -v- was hypercorrectly replaced with -b-. The somewhat younger Middle High German hövesch, in line with hof (“court”), led to…
aile: aufhübschen, Hübschheit
- Sir, FBl. — - Çok şirin.
Das wäre doch hübsch, wenn…
Es iſt gar huͤbſch von einem großen Herrn / So menſchlich mit dem Teufel ſelbſt zu ſprechen.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbon Reduplication of bon (“good”). Compare English goodies. The standard rule in French is to write ⟨m⟩ in front of bilabial consonants (/m/, /p/, /b/). This rule does not apply to the words derived from bon, including…
aile: bonbonnerie, bonbonnier, bonbonnière, coûter bonbon, rose bonbon
çekim: karşılaştırma shirinroq · üstünlük eng shirin
köken: Inherited from Chagatai شیرین (šyryn), from Classical Persian شیرین (šīrīn, “sweet”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šylyn' /šīrēn/, “sweet”).
köken: /kawajui/ → /kawaiː/ Shift in pronunciation from kawayui below. The kanji spelling 可愛い is an example of ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)), and uses an irregular reading of 愛. The phonological resemblance to Mandarin 可愛 (kě'ài), Min Nan 可愛 (khó-ài, “lovable”) is coincidental. Note that the medial -w- here is not an excrescence added between ka (可) and ai (愛), since the word is not formed from these morphemes.…