köken: Inherited from Old French gaiant, jaiant, jaianz, from Vulgar Latin *gagantem, through assimilation from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”).
köken: Borrowed from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).
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).
boss, chief, superior · employer, manager · strong or tough guy
çekim: çoğul bazen
eş: bestuurder, overste, leider, chef
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō-? Proto-Germanic *baswô Proto-West Germanic *baswō Old Dutch *baso Middle Dutch baes Dutch baas Inherited from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-West Germanic *baswō, from Proto-Germanic *baswô. Cognates include Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old…
aile: baas boven baas, baasachtig, baasje, bazig, bovenbaas, breinbaas, de baas spelen, eindbaas, huisbaas, de baas zijn
De baas gaf instructies aan het personeel om de deadlines te halen.
Hij is de baas van het bedrijf en neemt de belangrijke beslissingen.
De projectleider is de baas van het projectteam en stuurt de werkzaamheden aan.
giant (mythical anthropomorphic creature of great size) written with initial capital Γίγαντας (Gígantas) · giant (large person or organisation) · giant star
çekim: çoğul γίγαντες · tamlayan γίγαντα
eş: κολοσσός
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek γίγαντας (gígantas), from Ancient Greek γίγαντᾰ (gígantă, accusative singular of γίγᾱς (gígās)).
köken: Unknown. Generally believed to be based on a calque of Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kynokéfalos, literally “dog-head”). (See cap and câine, cf. Aromanian capdicãne). The -un suffix may indicate an expressive treatment, similar to gărgăun. Also, possibly from a Medieval Latin *capcanus, or linked with an old Turkic kapgan.
giant, colossus (any creature or thing of gigantic size) · giant (a star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature) · giant, gigantic, huge, colossal, mammoth
çekim: çoğul óriások
köken: Of disputed origin. Either a loanword from Russian оря́сина (orjásina) or the proper noun Uriás (“Uriah”) becoming a common noun.