big

(Anglais)

Opposé de
little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute, young
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A1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/bɪɡ/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug. Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.

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