Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
To sweeten; to make agreeable. · To add honey to. · To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments. · To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryInvolving or resembling honey. · Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey. · Honey-sweet.
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionhonyenm
- Inherited-form mentionhuniġang
- Inherited-form mention*hunaggmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hunagągem-pro
- Cognate mentionHunichstq
- Cognate mentionhunichfy
- Cognate mentionHonigde
- Cognate mentionhonningfrr
- Cognate mentionhuningfy
- Cognate mentionhoningnl
- Cognate mentionhonungsv
- Cognate mentionhunangurfo
- Cognate mentionhunangis
- Cognate mentioncaneconwlm
- Cognate mentioncanicaela
- Cognate mentionkronkśetxb
- Cognate mentionqengjësq
- Cognate mentionκνῆκοςgrc
- Cognate mentionşankmr
- Cognate mentionگونجlrc · bee
- Cognate mentionhunajafi
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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