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: According to Dybo, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *yüg-, hence Azerbaijani yüksək and other related forms. Compare Turkish yüce and dialectal yüvcek, yüğcek, üğücek. According to Sevortyan, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ūč (“edge”), hence, related to Azerbaijani uc (“tip, point, cusp”) and unrelated to Azerbaijani yüksək. Some consider both the Turkish uca (“coccyx”) and Azerbaijani uca (“high”)…
çekim: karşılaştırma mais alto · üstünlük o mais alto
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese alto, from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. This form is likely a semi-learned term, or was influenced by learned elements of the language and uses such an orthography, as with Galician and Spanish alto (which have popularly inherited variants outo and oto, respectively). There was once likely an *outo in Old Galician-Portuguese that is not…
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective 高(たか)し (takashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *taka.
to be big, large (both physical and figurative) · to be great · to be loud
çekim: geçmiş 컸다
zıt: 작다
köken: First attested as Late Old Korean 黑根 (*huku-n) in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, reflecting the realis gerundive form with Old Korean 隱 (*-n). Hence, the Old Korean verbal stem would have been *huku-. Beyond Old Korean, also connected to Baekje 鞬 (*ke-n).
tall; high (having a considerable distance from the bottom to the top) · tall (of a person, building, etc., having a considerable height) · high (physically elevated)
çekim: karşılaştırma wyższy · üstünlük najwyższy
eş: duży, wielki, wielki, ważny, wspaniały
zıt: niski, gruby
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-der.? Proto-Slavic *vysь Proto-Indo-European *-kosder. Proto-Slavic *-okъ Proto-Slavic *vysòkъ Old Polish wysoki Polish wysoki Inherited from Old Polish wysoki.
aile: na wysokich obcasach, wysokich lotów, wysokiej próby, na wysokiej stopie, wysoce, wysokie progi, wysokość, za wysokie progi, jeśli spadać, to z wysokiego konia, za wysokie progi na nogi
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: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *inaltum, from Latin in + altus (or perhaps from the phrase in altō). The preposition may have been added by influence of înălța (“raise”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós Proto-Italic *altos Latin altus From altum, supine of alō (“grow”). Corresponds to Proto-Italic *altos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, a suffixed form of the root *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”) (compare Proto-Germanic *aldaz, whence English old.