kittle

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

To tickle, to touch lightly.

Adj

1. (Northern-England, Scotland) Ticklish.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland) Not easily managed

Concetti

adombrabile

ispido

solleticoso

spinoso

sinonimi

touchy

difficult

susceptible

awkward

ticklish

touchous

tickle

Traduzioni

دغدغ

kitzlig

brenzlig

kitzelig

chatouilleux

délicat

susceptible

lastig

teer

sensitivo

cócegozo

delicado

cosquilloso

gıdık alır

gıdıklanır

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: kitelen

Ereditato da inglese antico: citelian

Affine olandese: kittelen

Affine basso tedesco: kettelen

Affine tedesco: kitzeln

Affine islandese: kitla

Affine svedese: kittla

Affine danese: kilde

In summary

From Middle English kitelen, from Old English citelian (“to tickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *kitilōn, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną, frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *kitōną (“to tickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *geid- (“to stick, jab, tickle”).
Cognate with Dutch kittelen, kietelen (“to tickle”), Low German kettelen, ketelen (“to tickle”), German kitzeln (“to tickle”), Icelandic kitla (“to tickle”), Swedish kittla, kittsla, Danish kilde and perhaps Old Armenian կիծ- (kic-, “to sting, bite”). Compare tickle.