gatavs

Etymology
This word is traditionally considered (together with its 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 cognates) a borrowing from 🇨🇬, itself, in turn, also traditionally seen as a borrowing from 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬 may have had a derived adjective ).

A more recent hypothesis is that the Slavic words were not borrowed, but derive from 🇨🇬: from short-vowel forms like supine, one would have 🇨🇬, from which. The original meaning would have been “(about) to go,” “ready (to go),” from which “ready.” (For similar semantic changes, cf. 🇨🇬,, , , and 🇨🇬, ). If this hypothesis is correct, then 🇨🇬 might also not be a borrowing, but a direct development of : note that this stem has other reflexes not shared by Slavic (e.g., 🇨🇬, or 🇨🇬,, , dialectal ). Note also that 🇨🇬 has some meanings and uses (“mature,” “ripe”; also “full, complete” in negative uses, e.g. “a complete idiot”) not shared by its Slavic counterparts (but, interestingly, often shared by its 🇨🇬 translation equivalents: 🇨🇬), which suggests that it is an old word.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬,.

Adjective

 * 1) ready such that it has reached its final or desired state, form; such that it has been prepared, completed
 * 2) ready such that it is now able to do something, to be used in a certain way
 * 3)  ready, ready-made, formulaic prepared in advance, not taking into account the actual situation or context
 * 4)  ripe, mature which has reached full growth
 * 5)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 6)  real, true;
 * 7)  finished; dead
 * 1) ready such that it is now able to do something, to be used in a certain way
 * 2)  ready, ready-made, formulaic prepared in advance, not taking into account the actual situation or context
 * 3)  ripe, mature which has reached full growth
 * 4)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 5)  real, true;
 * 6)  finished; dead
 * 1)  ready, ready-made, formulaic prepared in advance, not taking into account the actual situation or context
 * 2)  ripe, mature which has reached full growth
 * 3)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 4)  real, true;
 * 5)  finished; dead
 * 1)  ready, ready-made, formulaic prepared in advance, not taking into account the actual situation or context
 * 2)  ripe, mature which has reached full growth
 * 3)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 4)  real, true;
 * 5)  finished; dead
 * 1)  ripe, mature which has reached full growth
 * 2)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 3)  real, true;
 * 4)  finished; dead
 * 1)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 2)  real, true;
 * 3)  finished; dead
 * 1)  ripe, mature such that its quality has reached a high aesthetic level
 * 2)  real, true;
 * 3)  finished; dead
 * 1)  real, true;
 * 2)  finished; dead
 * 1)  real, true;
 * 2)  finished; dead
 * 1)  finished; dead
 * 1)  finished; dead
 * 1)  finished; dead
 * 1)  finished; dead