aminda

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Etymology

From ami (“to love”) +‎ -inda (“deserving of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [amˈinda]

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• Rhymes: -inda
• Hyphenation: am‧in‧da

Adjective

aminda (accusative singular amindan, plural amindaj, accusative plural amindajn)

1. worthy of love, lovable; kind, dear, sweet
   • Lydia Zamenhof (translator), Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Part 1, Chapter 2,

     Ŝi estas ankoraŭ birdido, sed aminda birdido, al kiu ni ambaŭ alkutimiĝis.

     She is a wagtail (lit. a chick) yet, but a dear one, to which we have both grown attached. (Jeremiah Curtin translation)

   • Mauro Nervi (translator), La Metamorfozo (Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka, III,

     post longa tempo, en lia memoro reelmergiĝis [...] ĉambristino el provinca hotelo, aminda, forfuĝa rememoro

     figures reappeared in his thoughts after long absence: [...] a chambermaid in a hotel in the provinces, a sweet, fleeting memory; (Joyce Crick translation, Oxford, 2009)

Derived terms

• aminde (“affectionately, kindly, sweetly”)
• amindeco (“lovableness, kindness, sweetness”)
• amindumi (“to woo”)