gatavs
Pronunciation: [ˈɡatːaws]
“gatavs” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:
adjective
- ready (such that it has reached its final or desired state, form; such that it has been prepared, completed)
- ready (such that it is now able to do something, to be used in a certain way)
- ready, ready-made, formulaic (prepared in advance, not taking into account the actual situation or context)
- ripe, mature (which has reached full growth)
- ripe, mature (such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level)
- real, true; used to reinforce the, usually negative, meaning of the following word
- finished; dead
Etymology
This word is traditionally considered (together with its Lithuanian and Old Prussian cognates) a borrowing from Slavic, itself, in turn, also traditionally seen as a borrowing from Germanic (Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gataujan) may have had a derived adjective *gataws). A more recent hypothesis is that the Slavic words were not borrowed, but derive from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go, to leave”): from…
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