köken: From blau + Auge + -ig. The metaphorical use (19th c.) is usually linked to the typically blue-eyed and fair-haired characters in naive, romanticist art. Compare blond (“stupid”). Perhaps the fact that newborns often have blue eyes may also be considered.
Strabon, Geographica. — Strabon, Coğrafya.
Es ist blauäugig, allen Versprechen der Politiker zu glauben.
köken: Inherited from Old French naïf, inherited from Latin nātīvus. Doublet of natif. Semantical shift from "original; natural; simple" to "simple-minded".
Georg Benjamin. — Georg Bondi.
Il est vraiment naïf, il a gobé tout ce qu'ils lui ont raconté.
köken: Borrowed from Northwestern Indo-Aryan, whence Punjabi ਅੱਲ੍ਹੜ (allhaṛ), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *अल्लड (allaḍa, “childish”), of uncertain origin. Related to अल्लड़ (allaṛ), अलड़ (alaṛ), and अल्लढ़ (allaṛh). Cognate with Sindhi اَلَڙُ (alaṛu), Marathi अल्लड (allaḍ), Gujarati અલ્લડ (allaḍ) and Nepali अल्लड (allaḍ) / अल्लढ (allaḍh).
stupid, dense, dumb, thick, dim · foolish, silly, daft
çekim: karşılaştırma dummere · üstünlük dummest
köken: From Old Danish dumb, dum, from Old Norse dumbr (“dumb”), and in the main sense stupid from German dumm. Both from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare Norwegian and Swedish dum, Icelandic dumbur, English dumb, Low German dumm, Dutch dom, German dumm.