Femminile

Kebse

(Inglese)

concubine

Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈkeːpsə/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

18th-century learned borrowing from Middle High German kebse, kebese, from Old High German kebisa, chebisa, from Proto-West Germanic *kabisi, from Proto-Germanic *kabisjō (“concubine”). Only the compounds Kebsweib and Kebskind were inherited. Cognate with Dutch kēves, Old English ċiefes.

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