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
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 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.
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).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós Proto-Italic *altos Latin altusbor. Esperanto alta Borrowed from Latin altus. Compare Spanish and Italian alto, French haut, Romanian înalt. Doublet of haŭsi.