nursery school; kindergarten; day care center (institution where children below school age play and are looked after during the day) · antics, petty squabbling (behavior considered undignified and unproductive, often antagonistic and cliquish)
köken: Kind (“child”) + -er- + Garten (“garden”). Coined by German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel in 1840 in the metaphorical sense of "place where children can grow in a natural way", not in the literal sense of "garden".
aile: Arbeiter-Kindergarten, Arbeiterkindergarten, Betriebskindergarten, Christus-Kindergarten, Christuskindergarten, Das ist hier wie im Kindergarten, Fröbel-Kindergarten, Fröbelkindergarten, Fröbelkindergärtner, Fröbelkindergärtnerin
_Du_ hast aber schon gemerkt, dass [...] nicht von mir war, ja? *kopfschüttel* So ein Kindergarten, hier.
crèche (the Nativity scene) · crèche (day nursery)
çekim: çoğul crèches
köken: From Middle French cresche, from Old French creche, cresche (“manger, feeding trough”), from Late Latin cripia (“feeding trough”), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija (“crib”), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')rībh- (“basket, net”). Cognate with Old High German krippa, kripja (“crib”) (German Krippe), Old English cribb, crybb (“crib”), Dutch kribbe (“crib”),…
An educational institution, compulsory since August 2015, for children (normally between 6 and 7 years old) the last year before beginning primary school (peruskoulu); roughly equivalent to kindergarten (US)/reception (UK).