pilns
Pronunciation: [ˈpīlns]
“pilns” is a Latvian word. Its 15 meanings in English:
adjective
- full (without any space left)
- full (completely occupied)
- full (with completely occupied surface; with many thing on its surface)
- full (completely written, drawn over; with many writings, drawings)
- full (with many people, animals, plants, objects; with all available places occupied; where some substance has spread)
- full (with considerable admixture of something else)
- full (where something occurs or is formed in large quantites)
- full (where some intense activity occurs, characterized by some intense activity)
- full (feeling, possessing some mental feature very intensely)
- full (at the highest intensity, at the highest level of development)
- full, complete, whole, entire (covering the whole set, extension; having all parts;)
- full, whole, complete (corresponding exactly to the given value)
- full, continuous, uninterrupted
- full (relatively large, stout)
- full, very drunk
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pílˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós, from the root *pleh₁- (“to pour, to flow; to heap, to fill”). The original meaning was thus “poured”, “flowed”, “heaped”, from which “filled”.
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