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smags

Pronunciation: [smaks]

“smags” is a Latvian word. Its 20 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. heavy (such that it has great weight, a large mass)
  2. heavy
  3. heavy (larger, more important, more powerful than others of its kind)
  4. heavy (giving the appearance of greater weight, larger mass)
  5. heavy (concentrated, thick, dense, strong)
  6. heavy, dark
  7. heavy (difficult to digest)
  8. heavy, hard, tough, difficult (such that it needs great physical effort to be carried out)
  9. heavy, hard, tough, difficult (such that it needs great mental or emotional effort for its realization, understanding)
  10. heavy, tough, hard, severe (relating to difficulty, hardships, misery, or embarrassment, concern with some situation or event)
  11. heavy, difficult, severe, gloomy (very unpleasant; implying, expressing suffering)
  12. heavy, serious, severe, dangerous (especially dangerous or harmful to others)
  13. heavy, serious, strict, severe, merciless
  14. difficult (with whom it is difficult to communicate successfully; quarrelsome)
  15. heavy, serious (implying strong physical, mental or emotional pain, suffering; life-threatening)
  16. heavy, difficult
  17. heavy, tired, weak
  18. heavy (characterized by lack of agility or grace; slow, difficult)
  19. heavy (difficult to follow or understand)
  20. low, low-pitched, hollow

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *smag-, from Proto-Indo-European *smog- (“such that it presses heavily; to work hard, to carry a heavy load”). The much broader range of meanings in the Lithuanian cognate was apparently also once present in its Latvian counterpart: remnants are still found in uses like smags gaiss “heavy air” = “stifling,” and, dialectally, also “fast, quick” or “intensely, a lot.” It would…

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