kwaad
Dutch (Brabantic)
/kʋaːt/
adj
Definitions
- angry, furious
- bad, evil, crooked
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch quâet inherited from Old Dutch *kwāt inherited from Proto-Germanic *kwēdaz (bad, evil, ugly).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kwēdaz
Gloss
bad, evil, ugly
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
悪
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- kwaai English
- kat Dutch, Flemish
- kattenkwaad Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadaardig Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadaardigheid Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadheid Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadspreekster Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadspreken Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadspreker Dutch, Flemish
- kwaadwil Dutch, Flemish
- kwalijk Dutch, Flemish
- spreken Dutch, Flemish
- wil Dutch, Flemish
- *gʷēdh- Proto-Indo-European
- *kwēdaz Proto-Germanic
- *kwēdą Proto-Germanic
- *cwēad Old English
- cwead Old English
- qued Middle English
- quaet Middle Dutch
- qualike Middle Dutch
- quâet Middle Dutch
- *quād Old High German
- kwaad Afrikaans
- kwaai Afrikaans
- zi Albanian
- *kwāt Old Dutch
- *kwād Old Saxon
- *džedi Proto-Albanian