grete
Middle English
adjective
Definitions
- great; massive; amazing
Etymology
Inherited from Old English grēat (big, coarse, great, thick, stour, large, massive).
Origin
Old English
grēat
Gloss
big, coarse, great, thick, stour, large, massive
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
大
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Capesize English
- blocksize English
- broodsize English
- downsize English
- great English
- grit English
- gritless English
- gritrock English
- gritsome English
- gritstone English
- gritten English
- gritter English
- grittish English
- gritty English
- life-size English
- microsize English
- multisize English
- nanosize English
- outsize English
- oversize English
- peagrit English
- queen-size English
- resize English
- rightsize English
- sizable English
- size English
- sized English
- sizeism English
- sizeist English
- sizeless English
- sizer English
- sizewise English
- sizism English
- sizy English
- stepsize English
- supersize English
- undersize English
- unisize English
- upsize English
- wordsize English
- *grautaz Proto-Germanic
- サイズ Japanese
- greatnes Old English
- grēat Old English
- greet Middle English
- syse Middle English
- saghas Irish
- ဆိုက် Burmese
- size Chinese
- 晒士 Chinese
- 사이즈 Korean
- great Scots
- jaij Marshallese
- jāij Marshallese
- sais Tok Pisin