köken: Inherited from Old French gaiant, jaiant, jaianz, from Vulgar Latin *gagantem, through assimilation from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”).
köken: From Middle Dutch ruese, rose, rese, from Old Dutch *riso, *risi, from Proto-West Germanic *risi, from Proto-Germanic *risiz (“giant”). Cognate to German Riese (“giant”) and Old Norse risi (“giant”).
a giant: · a very tall person · a person of extraordinary strength or power, bodily or intellectual
zıt: 小人
köken: Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巨人 (MC gjoX nyin). The professional baseball team is an abbreviation of one of its original names, the 東京巨人軍 (Tōkyō Kyojin-gun, “Tokyo Giants”).
jotun; a mythical humanoid creature, originally human-sized but later associated with great size · giant
çekim: çoğul jättar · tamlayan jättes
köken: From, iætti, from Old Norse *iætti, byform of Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-. Doublet of (dialectal) jutul, juttul, jottel (“the devil; clever handy man, trixter, sly fox”); from Old Swedish *iatul, alternative form of iætun (“giant; jotun”); also borrowed into Finnish jatuli (“giant”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *ob(ъ)rinъ Old Polish obrzym ▲ English giantsl. Polish olbrzym Inherited from Old Polish obrzym. Noun 2 sense 2 is a semantic loan from English giant.
giant (object, animal or person of unusually large size) · giant (person of extraordinary talent or influence in a given field) · giant (member of a race of enormous beings, the children of Gaia and Uranus)
çekim: çoğul giganti · tamlayan giganta
zıt: punduris, rūķis
köken: Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”), genitive form γιγάντος (gigántos), the name of a mythical race of large human-like beings. The word was apparently taken into Ancient Greek from a non-Indo-European pre-Greek language.
aile: gigantisks, gigantisms
lielās pilsētas izaug par gigantiem, mazās kļūst par lielām
dzīve ir daudzveidīga: līdzās grandiozām celtnēm un tehnikas gigantiem cilvēkam vajadzīgs zieds, smarža, daiļums
Manilas pilsētas apkārtnē atrasts neparasta izmēra cilvēka skelets: milzis bijis 5 metri garš!... giganta zobi sasnieguši 7 cm (!) garumu
a very big person, a giant · leading light · flagship
çekim: çoğul viganë
köken: A formation from vig, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to curve, bend; to exchange”). Compare Latin vinco (“to win, beat”), Lithuanian veikiù (“make work”), Old High German wig (“battle, struggle”), wigant (“cripple”), Old English wǣgan (“to torment, smite”). Less likely from viganj (“forge”), with sematic problems.