babe

Oznaczający (Angielski)

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

Koncepcje

niemowlę

dziecko

dziewczyna

laska

piękność

ślicznotka

syn

naiwniak

dzidziuś

dzieciątko

starsza siostra

maluch

bobasek

bobo

dzidzia

niemowlak

bobas

bébé

córka

Częstotliwość

B1
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/beɪb/
Etymologia (Angielski)

In summary

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.

Related words

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