köken: From Middle High German hōch, from Old High German hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. Compare Dutch hoog, Low German hoog, English high, Swedish hög. The irregular declension from the stem hoh- is due to the development of Old High German -h-, which in Middle High German became /x/ in coda position, but /h/…
köken: Inherited from Middle French hault, from Old French haut, halt (“high, tall, elevated”), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”). Akin to Old High German hōh (“high, tall, elevated”). More at high, haughty.
aile: à haute voix, à voix haute, au plus haut point, de haute lutte, de haute volée, garder la tête haute, haut allemand, haut clergé, haut comme trois pommes, haut débit
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: Originally derived from 窄(すば)る (subaru, “to shrink, to get smaller”, archaic) + しい (-shii, adjectivizing suffix evoking the quality of the suffixed term), from the sense of “that which makes one shrink away”. Compare verbs 窄まる (subomaru), 窄める (subomeru). The kanji spelling is an example of ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)). The initial sense was strongly negative, and this usage continued until at least the…
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
high (physically elevated, extending above a base or average level; located at a great altitude) · tall, high (of objects, not of persons: having a great vertical extent) · high (of great or large quantity)