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 dejligere · üstünlük dejligst
köken: From Middle Low German degelik (“prosperous, vigorous”), (from Old Saxon *dēg, from Proto-West Germanic *daig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz), + the suffix *-līkaz. Cognate with older Swedish dejlig, Norwegian Bokmål deilig and Dutch degelijk (“sound, solid”).
friendly, kind, affectionate, loving; also, nice, pleasant, lovely · tame, friendly, not wild, not aggressive · lovely, pleasant, soft, nice (which causes a pleasant reaction, sensation, or feeling; (of weather) warm and pleasant)
çekim: karşılaştırma mīlīgāks · üstünlük vismīlīgākais
eş: laipns, mīļš, jauks, foršs
köken: From mīl(ēt) (“to love”) + -īgs. Originally (in the 17th century) a synonym of mīļš (“dear, beloved”), including the romantic senses, these two words drifted apart semantically in the 18th century, at the end of which they were no longer fully synonymous.