child

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
2. (broadly, sometimes) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
3. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
4. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
5. (figuratively) A figurative offspring
6. (figuratively) A figurative offspring
7. (figuratively) A figurative offspring
8. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
9. A subordinate node of a tree.
10. (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.

Verb

To give birth; to beget or procreate.

Sinonieme

baby

👶

infant

offspring

kid

🧒

son

boy

👦

children

daughter

youngster

bairn

youth

young

young person

girl

👧

minor

toddler

descendant

adolescent

tyke

progeny

lad

creation

young man

tot

small child

tiddler

kiddy

small

nipper

nestling

moppet

tike

babe

foetus

childhood

younker

little boy

teenager

tad

seed

shaver

papoose

product

niece

descendent

scion

little one

fry

nephew

oneself

Vertalings

enfant

🧒

Kind

🧒

niño

🧒

bambino

🧒

kind

🧒

criança

🧒

παιδί

hijo

çocuk

🧒

menino

👦

niña

👧

figlio

hija

nen

👦

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/t͡ʃaɪld/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: child

Geërf van Old English: ċild

Verwante met Deens: kuld

Verwante met Sweeds: kull

Verwante met Yslands: kelta

Verwante met Goties: 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹

Verwante met Sanskrit: जर्त

Geërf van Middle English: childen

In summary

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

Sinne

He was the ninth child and the first boy after eight girls .

A child is looking through a pretend telescope on playground equipment in front of a blue sky .

His eldest child was Allan Ramsay , the portrait painter .

Sickly as a child , the desert air helped Kono's asthma .

Since Alfonso-Jordan was still a child , Raymond's soldiers chose William-Jordan as regent .