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
hard, firm · violent (involving extreme force or motion) · fast
çekim: karşılaştırma daha bərk · üstünlük ən bərk
köken: From Proto-Turkic *berk (“mighty”). Cognate with Turkmen and Turkish berk, Chuvash парка (park̬a, “hard, healthy”), Yakut бэрт (bert, “great, excellent”), etc.
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 Old Danish høgh, from Old Norse (east) *haugʀ, (west) hár, hór, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, *haugaz (“high”), cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk høg, Norwegian Bokmål høy, Swedish hög, English high, German hoch, Dutch hoog.