honey

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A viscous, gold-coloured sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
2. A variety of this substance.
3. Nectar.
4. Something sweet or desirable.
5. A term of affection.
6. (informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
7. A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

Adj

1. Involving or resembling honey.
2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like most types of honey.
3. Honey-sweet.

Verb

1. To sweeten; to make agreeable.
2. To add honey to.
3. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
4. To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

Conceptos

miel

cariño

amor

dulzura

caramelo

dulce

golosina

abeja

colmena

de miel

Miel de abeja

melosidad

avispa

azúcar

postre

querido

colocar miel

amado

cielo

corazón

sol

tesoro

dulcera

Con guión como

hon‧ey

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhʌni/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare West Frisian hunich, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare Swedish honung), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.