köken: From Proto-Finnic *huikëda, the root of which is possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swiką. Related to Karelian huikie (“shameful”) and Veps huiged (“indecent, shameful”).
köken: Traditionally from in- (“un-, not”) + gens (“kind, family, race”); something that goes beyond what is natural for its kind. Sometimes linked to Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, from an extended form of the oblique stem *m̥ǵh₂- ; this would make it cognate to magnus, Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) and Sanskrit महत् (mahat)
köken: From khổng + lồ: * the first element is Sino-Vietnamese word from 孔 ~ 空 (homophonous alternative form of 孔), meaning "large, grand"; while * the second element is Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 路 (“large, grand”, SV: lộ), its huyền-tone likely resulting from the same historical phonological process which yields doublets like loài & loại from 類 (MC lwijH), từ & tự from 自 (MC dzijH), dùng &…
gigantic, enormous, huge (having unusually large size or power) · gigantic, enormous, huge (requiring unusually large efforts, power, energy for its realization)
çekim: karşılaştırma gigantiskāks · üstünlük visgigantiskākais
eş: liels, milzīgs, prāvs
zıt: mazs, neliels, sīks
köken: From gigants (“giant”) + -isks. Probably not derived as such in Latvian, but borrowed and adapted from other European languages.
gigantiska celtne
gigantiska hidroelektrostacija
aiz augstās dēļu sētas paceļas fabrikas gigantiskie korpusi