different between karats vs karsts

English

Noun

karats

1. plural of karat

Anagrams

• Straka, katars

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)sts

Noun

karsts

1. plural of karst

Anagrams

• Starks, Trasks, skarts, starks

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?st/

Noun

karsts m

1. plural of karst

Icelandic

Noun

karsts

1. indefinite genitive singular of karst

Latvian

Etymology

From the (intransitive) verb karst (“to heat up, to grow hot”) (q.v.), of which it is the past participle, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerh?- (“to burn”), from which also Lithuanian kárštas (“hot”), Latin carbo (“coal”), Gothic ???????????????????? (hauri, “coal”)..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kâ?sts]

Adjective

karsts (definite karstais, comparative karst?ks, superlative viskarst?kais, adverb karsti)

1. hot (having relatively high temperature)

2. hot (which irradiates a lot of heat)

3. (time) hot (having relatively high air temperature)

4. (place) hot (where the temperature is (typically) relatively high)

5. hot (relating to high body temperature and the feelings it causes)

6. hot (which is done by heating or takes place at high temperatures)

7. (of people, their actions) hot, hot-headed (having very strong, impatient character, temperament; temperamental, passionate; expressing such a character)

8. (of feelings, actions) hot, ardent, fervent, passionate

9. (of places, times) hot, busy (where or when something happens intensively, e.g. war)

Declension

Synonyms

• silts

Antonyms

• auksts
• v?ss

Derived terms

• karstums

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN