kidney

Significat (Anglès)

1. An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
2. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
3. (dated, figuratively) Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
4. (obsolete, slang) A waiter.

Conceptes

ronyó

renyó

Sinònims

kidneys

butchery cut

liver

reins

ren

bladder

rump

type

nephridium

nephros

nephro

renal

hematite

Traduccions

rein

Niere

riñón

rene

rim

nier

böbrek

νεφρό

ren

rognon

νεφρός

rognone

gurçik

كلية

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkɪdni/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: kednei

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Njuure

Cognat amb neerlandès: nier

Cognat amb alemany: Niere

Cognat amb danès: nyre

Cognat amb noruec: nyre

Cognat amb suec: njure

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: nioro

In summary

From Middle English kedney, kydeney, from earlier kidnēre, kidenēre (“kidney”), of obscure origin and formation. Probably a compound consisting of Middle English *kid, *quid (“belly, womb”), from Old English cwiþ, cwiþa (“belly, womb, stomach”) + Middle English nēre (“kidney”), from Old English *nēora (“kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *neurō, from Proto-Germanic *neurô (“kidney”), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰr- (“kidney”). If so, then related to dialectal English near (“kidney”), Scots nere, neir (“kidney”), Saterland Frisian Njuure (“kidney”), Dutch nier (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Danish nyre (“kidney”), Norwegian nyre (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós).
Alternate etymology traces the first element to Old English *cydde (“sack, belly, scrotum”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddijā (“sack”) as the terms for testicle and kidney were often interchangeable in Germanic (compare Old High German nioro (“kidney", also "testicle”), Old Swedish vig-niauri (“testicle”)). More at codpiece.