child
Middle English
/ˈtʃiːld/
noun
Definitions
- A baby, infant, toddler; a person in infancy.
- A child, kid; a young person.
- An offspring, one of one's progeny.
- A childish or stupid individual.
- (Chrisitanity) The Christ child; Jesus as a child.
- (figurative) A member of a creed usually with the religion in the genitive preposing it
- A young male, especially one employed as an hireling.
- A young noble training to become a knight; a squire or childe.
- The young of animals or plants.
- A material as a result or outcome.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ċild (child, youth, female baby, fetus) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (womb, fetus, embryo fetus).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kelþaz
Gloss
womb, fetus, embryo fetus
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antichild English
- belchild English
- birthchild English
- boychild English
- brainchild English
- child English
- child-free English
- child-great English
- child-in-law English
- childbearer English
- childbearing English
- childbed English
- childcare English
- childcarer English
- childcaring English
- childe English
- childed English
- childfucker English
- childhood English
- childie English
- childing English
- childish English
- childism English
- childkind English
- childless English
- childlike English
- childline English
- childling English
- childlore English
- childly English
- childmind English
- childminder English
- childness English
- childproof English
- childraiser English
- childraising English
- childrearer English
- childrearing English
- children English
- childsafe English
- childship English
- childspeak English
- childtime English
- childwear English
- dreamchild English
- girlchild English
- grandchild English
- man child English
- manchild English
- merchild English
- moonchild English
- nonchild English
- saleschild English
- schoolchild English
- semichild English
- stepchild English
- superchild English
- twichild English
- unchild English
- womanchild English
- womb-child English
- wombchild English
- wonderchild English
- *gelt- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵelt- Proto-Indo-European
- *kelþaz Proto-Germanic
- cild Old English
- cildhad Old English
- cildisc Old English
- cildlic Old English
- leorningcild Old English
- steopcild Old English
- ċild Old English
- ċildhād Old English
- ċildisċ Old English
- ċildlīċ Old English
- bed Middle English
- beryng Middle English
- child bed Middle English
- childberyng Middle English
- childen Middle English
- childhode Middle English
- childing Middle English
- childissh Middle English
- childles Middle English
- childly Middle English
- childwyte Middle English
- chyld Middle English
- knave Middle English
- knave child Middle English
- wite Middle English
- 𐌹𐌽𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐍃 Gothic