smagus

Etymology 1
From, and cognate with 🇨🇬. The further interpretation of the root and its deduced extra-Baltic cognates is unclear.

Traditionally held to be related to 🇨🇬; Windekens also adduces 🇨🇬 as a cognate. This derivation appears to be favored by Matasovic.

However, Fraenkel rejects the above hypothesis, and prefers to derive the word from, citing the collocation as evidence for a connection. This derivation is favored by Smoczynski.

Adjective

 * 1)  heavy

Etymology 2
The connection to Etymology 1 is unclear. Jegers and Smoczynski consider the "pleasant" sense a semantic extension of the "heavy" sense, via "heavy, strong" > "efficient" > "pleasant". However, Fraenkel is skeptical of this derivation, and separates the two, taking the "pleasant" sense implicitly to be from and comparing 🇨🇬 as cognate.

Adjective

 * 1) pleasant