kidney

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

kidneys

butchery cut

liver

reins

ren

bladder

rump

type

nephridium

nephros

nephro

renal

hematite

Traducións

rein

Niere

riñón

rene

rim

nier

ronyó

böbrek

ren

νεφρό

rognon

νεφρός

rognone

ren

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈkɪdni/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: kednei

Relativo a Saterfriesisch: Njuure

Relativo a neerlandés: nier

Relativo a alemán: Niere

Relativo a dinamarqués: nyre

Relativo a noruegués: nyre

Relativo a sueco: njure

Relativo a Old High German: 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.