babe

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
2. (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman.
3. Darling (term of endearment).

Concepten

zuigeling

baby

stuk

kind

pasgeborene

liefje

schatje

fraaiheid

iets moois

knapheid

schone

schone vrouw

schoonheid

cracker

griet

jongedame

juffrouw

meid

meisje

mevrouw

kleintje

wicht

dochter

nakomeling

zoon

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/beɪb/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”).
cognates and related terms
Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.