köken: Inherited from Latin ad (“at”) + rīpam (“coast, bank”).
aile: aguas arriba, boca arriba, cuesta arriba, de arriba, hacia arriba, manos arriba, para arriba y para abajo, patas arriba, quark arriba, querer cagar más arriba del culo
köken: From Middle Persian [Term?] (/bālā/), from Proto-Iranian *bārźаh- (via a series of sound changes *rź > *rd > l) + a suffix *-ā of unknown origin. The first component is derived from Proto-Iranian *barź- (“to elevate, increase (height)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise up”).
aile: بالا آمدن, بالا آوردن, بالا بردن, بالا جستن, بالا رفتن, بالا زدن, بالا کردن, بالا کشیدن, بالا گرفتن
با چنان چشمی که بالا میشتافت نور چشمش آسمان را میشکافت
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…
to be high, to be tall, to be lofty (of an object, a place, a quantified statistic, etc.) · to be high up, to be high in social rank (of a person) · to be tall in height (of a person)
zıt: 낮다
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 높다〮 (Yale: nwòph-tá). The twelfth-century Chinese wordlist Jilin leishi records the Late Old Korean word for "tall" as 那奔 (nɑ puənᴴ), which seems to be the realis gerund form of this word with the Old Korean 隱 (*-on) suffix.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀉𑀘𑁆𑀘 (ucca), from Sanskrit उच्च (ucca). Doublet of उच्च (ucc), a tatsama. Cognate with Punjabi ਉੱਚ (ucca) / اُچّ (ucc), Gujarati ઉંચું (uñcũ), Marathi उंच (uñca), Bengali উঁচু (ũcu), Dhivehi އުސް (us).
high (physically elevated, extending above a base or average level; located at a great altitude) · tall, high (of objects, not of persons: having a great vertical extent) · high (of great or large quantity)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós Proto-Italic *altos Latin altus From altum, supine of alō (“grow”). Corresponds to Proto-Italic *altos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, a suffixed form of the root *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”) (compare Proto-Germanic *aldaz, whence English old.
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.