köken: Learned borrowing from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. The form alto represents a pronunciation influenced by the most learned layers of the language, and is not the normal phonetic result expected in a naturally inherited word. Cf. the now archaic form oto, which was used more often in Old Spanish and is the form of the word that was completely popularly inherited,…
aile: Alta Austria, Alta California, alta costura, alta danza, Alta Edad Media, alta fidelidad, alta gama, alta mar, alta montaña, alta tecnología
köken: From Latin altus (“high”), from Proto-Italic *altos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, derived from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”). Cognate with English old and Welsh allt.
köken: From Middle Persian [Term?] (/bālā/), from Proto-Iranian *bārźаh- (via a series of sound changes *rź > *rd > l) + a suffix *-ā of unknown origin. The first component is derived from Proto-Iranian *barź- (“to elevate, increase (height)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise up”).
aile: بالا آمدن, بالا آوردن, بالا بردن, بالا جستن, بالا رفتن, بالا زدن, بالا کردن, بالا کشیدن, بالا گرفتن
با چنان چشمی که بالا میشتافت نور چشمش آسمان را میشکافت
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek μεγάλος (megálos), from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) from its stem μεγαλ-, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”).
aile: κυτταρομεγαλοϊός, Μεγάλες Ώρες, Μεγάλη Βρετανία, Μεγάλη Εβδομάδα, Μεγάλη Παρασκευή, μεγαλοσύνη, μεγαλώνω
köken: /opoki/ → /oɸoki/ → /oɸokiki/ → /owokiː/ → /oːkiː/ Appears in the Muromachi period, 1337 to 1573 CE. From older adjective 大(おお)き (ōki, ancient reading opoki), derived as the attributive form ōki (ancient opoki) of cognate adjective ōshi (ancient oposi; attributive opoki appearing already in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE, meaning both “large” or “many”, spelled as 多(おお)し (ōshi) or 大(おお)し (ōshi), modern…
to be high, to be tall, to be lofty (of an object, a place, a quantified statistic, etc.) · to be high up, to be high in social rank (of a person) · to be tall in height (of a person)
zıt: 낮다
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 높다〮 (Yale: nwòph-tá). The twelfth-century Chinese wordlist Jilin leishi records the Late Old Korean word for "tall" as 那奔 (nɑ puənᴴ), which seems to be the realis gerund form of this word with the Old Korean 隱 (*-on) suffix.
zıt: Antonyms: see Thesaurus:mały, drobniuchny, drobniusi, drobniusieńki, drobniuteńki, drobniutki
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Balto-Slavic *daugjas Proto-Slavic *dužь Polish duży Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dužь. First attested in 1551.
aile: spod dużego palca, duża bańka, duża matura, duże niebieskie oczy, duże żniwa, duży ekran, duży palec, dzięcioł duży, przez duże, koń ma duży łeb, niech się martwi
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀉𑀘𑁆𑀘 (ucca), from Sanskrit उच्च (ucca). Doublet of उच्च (ucc), a tatsama. Cognate with Punjabi ਉੱਚ (ucca) / اُچّ (ucc), Gujarati ઉંચું (uñcũ), Marathi उंच (uñca), Bengali উঁচু (ũcu), Dhivehi އުސް (us).
köken: From isä (“father”) + -o, through an earlier form isoi (attested in Agricola). SSA considers this word 'primarily western (Finnish)', although SMS remarks it is common in all dialect regions except Central and South Karelia. First attested as jso in c. 1401.