köken: Haplology of dialectal German Feifalter, from Middle High German vīvalter, from Old High German fīfaltra, from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ, *fīfildǭ (“butterfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *peypel-. Cognate with Dutch vijfwouter, Icelandic fiðrildi, and outside Germanic Latin papilio. Folk-etymologically re-interpreted as Zweifalter, Pfeiffalter, etc., by association with unrelated falten (“to fold”).
köken: From Old French papeillon (12th c.), byform of paveillon, whence the modern doublet pavillon (“pavilion”). Both from Latin pāpiliōnem. The form with recovered -p- may be semi-learned, but has also been explained as a native development due to onomatopoeia. Another possibility would be influence by a hypothetical Old French *parpeillon, from Vulgar Latin *parpiliōnem (cf. Occitan parpalhon). The…
aile: arbre aux papillons, effet papillon, filet à papillons, minute papillon, nage papillon, nœud pap, nœud papillon, papillon de nuit, papillonnage, papillonner
vif et léger comme un papillon
Avec sa cour folâtre de jeunes merveilleux, papillons de boudoirs […] Véronique était là.
butterfly · bow tie · pasta in the shape of butterflies or bow ties
çekim: çoğul farfalle
köken: Perhaps from Old Italian parpaglione, from Latin papiliō (“butterfly”). Compare Old French paveillon, Catalan papalló, Provençal parpalhos, Lombard parpaja. The f is difficult to account for, though it might be due to the Tuscan gorgia. Alternatively, from the dialectal Arabic word in Maltese farfett, Tunisian Arabic فرططو (farṭaṭṭu) / فرفطو (farfaṭṭu), which is from Berber; compare Kabyle…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Oghuz اَمْ (am), from Proto-Turkic *am. Cognate with Turkish and Turkmen am. Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese berbeleta of uncertain origin. Possible etymologies include: * Old Galician-Portuguese *belbeleta, from Vulgar Latin *belbellita, from bellus (“beautiful”). * Vulgar Latin *papilitta, from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”). Cognate with Galician bolboreta.
köken: First attested in the Neung'eomgyeong eonhae (楞嚴經諺解 / 능엄경언해), 1461, as Middle Korean 나ᄇᆡ〮 (Yale: nàpóy). Also attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 나뵈〮 (Yale: nàpwóy). Perhaps etymologically 나봇 (nabot, ideophonic root for fluttering) + -이 (-i, noun-deriving suffix), literally "flutterer". Compare 나부끼다 (nabukkida, “to flutter in the wind”), 나붓거리다…