köken: Probably a borrowing from Latin brevis (“short”) (compare Spanish breve, where *brieve would be expected if the term were inherited), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.
closely, near (not far in distance) · closely (in close, intimate relationships) · closer, further, precisely, in detail
eş: bliziutko, bliziuteńko, dwa kroki, na miejscu, niedaleko, nieopodal
zıt: daleko
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Slavic *blizъ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *blizъkъ Old Polish bliski Proto-Slavic *-o Old Polish -o Old Polish blisko Polish blisko Inherited from Old Polish blisko. By surface analysis, bliski + -o.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic خُلَاصَة (ḵulāṣa). The primary senses are further influenced by खुलना (khulnā, “to open, come out”), but the lack of the suffix -आसा (-āsā) in other tadbhava words suggest this to be a folk conflation.