gulzig
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch gulsich, from guls + -ich, with guls probably from Old French golos, possibly influenced by Latin gulōsus.[1]
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]gulzig (comparative gulziger, superlative gulzigst)
- eating excessively quickly and/or too much, very keen to eat, gluttonous
- inclined to take too much, being overly keen to get more, greedy, avaricious
Declension
[edit]| Declension of gulzig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | gulzig | |||
| inflected | gulzige | |||
| comparative | gulziger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | gulzig | gulziger | het gulzigst het gulzigste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | gulzige | gulzigere | gulzigste |
| n. sing. | gulzig | gulziger | gulzigste | |
| plural | gulzige | gulzigere | gulzigste | |
| definite | gulzige | gulzigere | gulzigste | |
| partitive | gulzigs | gulzigers | — | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Negerhollands: glos
References
[edit]- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “gulzig”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute