dense, tight (with component parts that are linked or very close to each other) · tight, close (with people standing close to each other) · close, united
çekim: karşılaştırma ciešāks · üstünlük visciešākais
eş: blīvs, ciets
zıt: brīvs
köken: From the same stem as Latvian ciets (“hard, solid”), from which it was a variant yo-stem: Proto-Indo-European *key- (“to set in motion, to move”) with a variant -tyo-s of an (adjectivizing) suffix -to-s > Proto-Baltic *keityas > *kietyas > ciešs. It is also possible that the adverbial form cieti of ciets first gave rise to a variant *cieši via palatalization, from which came the adjective ciešs.…