köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *deywós Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás Proto-Iranian *daywáh Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /daivaʰ/) Middle Persian 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /dēw/) Persian دیو (dēw /div)bor. Azerbaijani div Borrowed from Persian دیو (dēw /div).
giant (mythical anthropomorphic creature of great size) written with initial capital Γίγαντας (Gígantas) · giant (large person or organisation) · giant star
çekim: çoğul γίγαντες · tamlayan γίγαντα
eş: κολοσσός
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek γίγαντας (gígantas), from Ancient Greek γίγαντᾰ (gígantă, accusative singular of γίγᾱς (gígās)).
a giant: · a very tall person · a person of extraordinary strength or power, bodily or intellectual
zıt: 小人
köken: Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巨人 (MC gjoX nyin). The professional baseball team is an abbreviation of one of its original names, the 東京巨人軍 (Tōkyō Kyojin-gun, “Tokyo Giants”).
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”).