בייז
Yiddish
adj
Definitions
- bad, evil, wicked
- malicious, vicious, angry
- unkind, unfriendly
- sinister, ominous, unholy
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German bōse inherited from Old High German bōsi inherited from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (bad, arrogant, puffed up, inflated, proud, swollen, worthless).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bausuz
Gloss
bad, arrogant, puffed up, inflated, proud, swollen, worthless
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
- *bauscia Latin
- Bosheit German
- Böse German
- Bösewicht German
- bitterböse German
- böse German
- *bʰew- Proto-Indo-European
- *bausuz Proto-Germanic
- boosten Middle English
- Bosi Old Norse
- bousán Galician
- bosi Old High German
- bōsi Old High German
- bōse Middle High German
- bœse Middle High German
- béis Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- bōsi Old Dutch
- bosi Old Saxon