firm, rough, coarse (most often of speech or behaviour) · substantial, hearty, rustic · solid, presentable
çekim: karşılaştırma deftiger · üstünlük am deftigsten
köken: Via German Low German from Dutch deftig, itself seemingly from West Frisian. The original sense of the Dutch word is not quite clear but would have run on the lines of “suitable, solid, weighty”. The further semantic development has been such that the word now, arguably, has opposite senses in German (“coarse, rustic”) and Dutch (“refined, genteel”).
abundant, plentiful, copious · sizable, hefty, significant · just over
çekim: karşılaştırma runsaampi · üstünlük runsain
zıt: vajaa
köken: Unknown. Relationship to Old High German runsa (“running water, stream”) has been proposed, but this is semantically distant, especially considering Karelian runšaš (North Karelian), Livvi ruznaz (“sturdy, hefty”) and Ludian ruznaz (“sturdy, hefty”). Given that -sn- has a wider distribution, *rusnas is probably original, and a similar metathesis as with känsä (< *käsnä) took place in Finnish.…
abundant, copious, plentiful, large, abounding in something · bountiful, liberal, munificent · generous with, lavish of
çekim: karşılaştırma largior · üstünlük largissimus
zıt: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus
köken: Unknown. Often connected with Proto-Indo-European *leh₂y- (“lard, fat, grease”) (see lārdum, lāridum (“bacon”) and laetus (“fat, happy”)), via Proto-Italic *lajes-ago-, though De Vaan finds this problematic and doubts that the long vowel is original. Compare also Ancient Greek λᾱρῑνός (lārīnós, “fattened; fatty”), with -r- as in Latin perhaps coming from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂-r-; this could…