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 bonbonbor. German Bonbon Borrowed from French bonbon.
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: From α- (a-) + θόρυβ(ος) (thóryv(os), “noise”) + suffix for adjectives -ος (-os). A calque of English noiseless. Different sense ("unperturbed, not causing confusion") for the ancient ἀθόρυβος (athórubos) with the same morphology.
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.…
çekim: karşılaştırma dulcior · üstünlük dulcissimus
zıt: amārus
köken: Most likely akin to Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”), both traditionally derived from a tentative Proto-Indo-European *dl̥kús (“sweet”), although the fall of -u- in the Latin form would be left unexplained, and the Greek form is problematic as well. Given that Latin and Greek are linguistically quite distant while being very close geographically, it is likely the word does not go back to…