köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *deywós Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás Proto-Iranian *daywáh Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /daivaʰ/) Middle Persian 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /dēw/) Persian دیو (dēw /div)bor. Azerbaijani div Borrowed from Persian دیو (dēw /div).
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