köken: Inherited from Old French estroit, inherited from Latin strictus. Doublet of strict. Compare also étreint. Compare Spanish estrecho and Portuguese estreito.
köken: From Latin angustus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ-. The correspondence of Latin short /u/ to Italian /u/ (rather than Italian /o/ as in agosto, mosto) indicates that the form is possibly a semi-learned borrowing (compare gusto).
aile: angustamente
l'idea angusta e provinciale dell'«agitatore che viene da fuori»
çekim: karşılaştırma باریکتَر · üstünlük باریکتَرین
köken: From Middle Persian bʾlyk (bārīg/k, “thin, fine subtle”), Northern Luri بۋریک (bürik). Akin to Old Armenian բարակ (barak), an Iranian borrowing. One of a few adjectives that has preserved the final -g/k phoneme and did not undergo the regular sound change from Middle Persian to Modern Persian. Others include تاریک (târik, “dark”) and نزدیک (nazdik, “near”). Composed of Middle Persian bʾl (bār,…
aile: کمرباریک, باریکبین, باریکه, از مو باریکتر, باریکی
thin (of round, elongated objects) · high, high-pitched · front
köken: From Persian نازک (nâzok, “thin”). Cognate with Kazakh нәзік (näzık, “thin, delicate”), Kumyk назик (nazik, “thin, slender”), Uzbek nozik (“thin, delicate”), Uyghur نازۇك (nazuk, “thin, delicate”), Turkmen näzik (“tender, soft, delicate”), Azerbaijani nazik (“thin”), Turkish nazik (“tender, kind, polite”).
narrow, tight (of small width) · small, tight, cramped (of small area) · small; limited
zıt: 広い
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective 狭(せま)し (semashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). Originally 狭し (sebashi); underwent a sound change from /b/ to /m/, similar to 寂しい (sabishii, samishii,…
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish klen, from Old Norse klénn, from Middle Low German klên, klêne, from Old Saxon klēni, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“clear, pure”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(e)lēi- (“gleaming”), from *gel- (“to gleam”). Doublet of klenod and klenät.
tight, narrow, cramped (such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it; uncomfortably restricted in size) · tight (fitting too close to the body) · narrow (of little extent)
çekim: karşılaştırma ahtaampi · üstünlük ahtain
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ahtas (compare Estonian ahas), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *anśtas (compare Lithuanian ankštas), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus.
Inherited from Old Polish wązki, from Proto-Slavic *ǫzъkъ, from Pre-Slavic *anźukas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *anźus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus.