me: "yeah we adopted the word 'pet' in Brazil because there was a vocabulary gap, we didn't really have a convenient word for that our expression was kind of a mouthful—"

babygirl: "what is it? ✍️ "

me: "bichinho de estimação"

babygirl: (with perfect phonetics but struggling to parse it) "bichinho…?"

me: "yeah 'bicho' is like, animal. cognate of 'beast'. and the other is from 'esteem', so it's like… esteemed little beast??"

babygirl: "omg but that's amazing I love it"

I kinda never noticed that's what it is lol