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
snout, muzzle · a wooden pin protruding from a door (traditional in Tetouan) by which it attaches in place of hinges
çekim: çoğul أَبْوَاز · tamlayan بُوزٍ
köken: From Classical Persian پوز (pōz, “the lip, mouth, and environs; the beak of a bird, the snout of a quadruped; the space between the nose and lip; the trunk of a tree”), akin to Northern Kurdish pîj (“splinter”).
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.
köken: Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠰᠠᠮᠰᠠ (samsa, “nasal septum”). Jegorov and Fedotov also compare Proto-Common Turkic *tumšuk (“nose, beak”), however this is dubious for phonetic reasons. EDAL reconstructs Proto-Turkic *sum-, however such a word is not attested in any other Turkic language.
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…
overwhelmingly thorough (often in a positive way); excessive, repetitive (in a negative way) · pushy, bossy, overly particular and demanding · excellent of technique (particularly for a performance)
köken: Probably originally a compound of 心 (uru, “heart, mind”, vowel-shifted from regular reading ura, cognate with 裏 (ura, “the behind or inside of something”)) + 狭し (sashi, “tight; narrow”, Classical and Old Japanese, cognate and synonym of modern 狭い (semai)), from the sense that something is so overwhelming that one feels pressured to yield or submit in some way. The earliest texts used this word to…