kid

kid · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gidʰ-“kid, goatling, little goat”
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰaydn-
3. Proto-Germanic · derived from*kidją
4. Old Norse · derived fromkið“young goat”
5. Middle English · inherited fromkide
6. English todaykid

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.

kid · noun²

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*kuddô“bag, sack, pod, shell, husk”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*kuddijā
3. Old English · inherited from*cydde“pouch, belly”
4. Middle English · inherited from*kidde
5. English todaykid

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *kidde, from Old English *cydde (“pouch, belly”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddijā, derived from or related to Proto-Germanic *kuddô (“bag, sack, pod, shell, husk”).

kid · noun³

Compare Welsh cidysen.

KID · proper noun⁴

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Words from the same roots