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biezs

Pronunciation: [bìɛs]

“biezs” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. thick, dense (made of many component elements, all very close to one another)
  2. thick, dense, concentrated
  3. thick, viscous (flowing slowly, with difficulty)
  4. thick, dark
  5. thick (having a large cross-section)
  6. thick
  7. thick, tight (not thin; also, such that there is little space between the threads)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *benž-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, tight”), from *bʰen- (“to hit, to injure”) (with the meaning evolving from “to hit” > “to swell,” “swollen” > “thick”). Cognates include Old Norse bingr (“stack, heap”), Old High German bungo (“ball, tangle”), Hittite [script needed] (panku-s, “whole, shared, united”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “much, many; great”), Ancient Greek…

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