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augša

“augša” is a Latvian word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. top, upper part (part at the top of, or above, over, something; the part opposed to the bottom)
  2. the upper floor or floors of a building
  3. attic, space right under the roof
  4. on, to the top, surface (of the ground)
  5. up high in the air, in the sky
  6. the top (a higher authority)
  7. upper (voice) tones
  8. at, to, from the upper reaches (of a river), up, upstream
  9. up, upward, also metaphorically

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *awg-tya, from Proto-Indo-European *aweg, *awg-, *wōg- (“to increase”) (with a suffix -tya), whence also the verb augt (“to grow”) (q.v.); compare also Sudovian auchs (“upward”) (< *augs-).

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