If anyone is interested in English etymology, I highly recommend etymonline.com. It’s a fantastic etymological dictionary run by a really dedicated guy. Here’s the entry for darling. The ‘dar’...
If anyone is interested in English etymology, I highly recommend etymonline.com. It’s a fantastic etymological dictionary run by a really dedicated guy.
My guess for "dar-", before I went in and checked, was "gift". Latin had do, dare, "to give". This Romanic stem didn't quite its way into Germanic languages, I suppose.
My guess for "dar-", before I went in and checked, was "gift". Latin had do, dare, "to give". This Romanic stem didn't quite its way into Germanic languages, I suppose.
If anyone is interested in English etymology, I highly recommend etymonline.com. It’s a fantastic etymological dictionary run by a really dedicated guy.
Here’s the entry for darling.
The ‘dar’ stem is from ‘dear’. So, it is, basically “a little dear thing”.
My guess for "dar-", before I went in and checked, was "gift". Latin had do, dare, "to give". This Romanic stem didn't quite its way into Germanic languages, I suppose.
To give, in south asian languages sounds very similar as well.