köken: /opoki/ → /oɸoki/ → /oɸokiki/ → /owokiː/ → /oːkiː/ Appears in the Muromachi period, 1337 to 1573 CE. From older adjective 大(おお)き (ōki, ancient reading opoki), derived as the attributive form ōki (ancient opoki) of cognate adjective ōshi (ancient oposi; attributive opoki appearing already in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE, meaning both “large” or “many”, spelled as 多(おお)し (ōshi) or 大(おお)し (ōshi), modern…
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”).
full-grown, grown up · large, great, grand, lofty, big · powerful
çekim: karşılaştırma grandior · üstünlük grandissimus
zıt: parvus
köken: From Proto-Italic *grandis, of unclear origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to grind”), and connected to Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”) (whence English great). A different etymology, favored by Pokorny, derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrendʰ- (“to swell”), and connects the word to Ancient Greek βρένθος (brénthos,…
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 &…