Feb 20, 2018 17:09
Itsy-bitsy comes from the word "ici-pici", which is used in Hungary to tiny, small things. It was taken into the US (to Holywood) by a Hungarian film director in the early 20th century. This is the one and only Hungarian word that was adopted to English.
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?paprika
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1896, from German Paprika, from Hungarian paprika, a diminutive from Serbo-Croatian papar "pepper," from Latin piper or Modern Greek piperi
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думал, песенка куда старше Голливуда
посмотрел, зафиксирована в сборниках довольно поздно, в сороковых прошлого века
в более ранних версиях пелось 'blooming, bloody' вместо 'itsy bitsy'
никогда не приходило в голову поинтересоваться, окуда вся эта itsiness-bitsiness
many thanks
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"Poor 'ittle tittle bitsy itsy sing" - Florence Burckett, Wildmoor (1875)
"do you know Mrs. Singleton's little bitsie witsie chickens?" - A. Newton Field, Those Awful Boys (1880)
"consisting of words with extraordinary endings of the itsy-bitsy-nitsy family" - Anna Cogswell Wood, Westover's Ward (1892)
и т.д.
bitsy, adj. - Etymology: < plural of bit n.2 or < bitty adj.: see -sy suffix2. (OED)
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спасибо, поймали
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