köken: From Old French brief, from Latin brevis. A folk etymology derives it as an acronym of Bon, Revenons-En aux Faits, but this is completely inaccurate.
aile: dans les plus brefs délais, en bref
Il lui envoya un bref message de quelques lignes seulement.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kɨsga (“short”), from *kɨs- (“to press, squeeze”). Cognate with Bashkir ҡыҫҡа (qıśqa), Uzbek qisqa, Crimean Tatar qısqa, Turkmen gysga, Turkish kısa, Khakas хысха (xısxa), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïsga (“short”), from *kïs- (“to press, squeeze”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qïsγa), Old Uyghur [script needed] (qïsqa, “short”); Uzbek qisqa (“short”), Crimean Tatar qısqa (“short”), Turkmen gysga (“short”), Turkish kısa (“short”), Khakas хысха (xısxa, “short”), etc.
köken: Probably a borrowing from Latin brevis (“short”) (compare Spanish breve, where *brieve would be expected if the term were inherited), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.
köken: * Sense pole: from Ancient Greek κοντός (“pole”) (noun). * Sense short: from the Hellenistic Koine Greek κοντός (kontós, “short”) (adjective) from the ancient sense Ancient Greek κοντός (“pole”) which referred to shorter kinds of poles, hence the sense shortness.
short, brief (in time) · short (in space, from one point to another) · short, brief (in length, such as a text or speech)
zıt: 長い
köken: ⟨mi₁zikasi⟩ → /mizikasi/ → /mid͡ʑikaɕi/ → /mid͡ʑikaki/ → /mid͡ʑikai/ From Old Japanese. First attested in c. 759 CE, in the Man'yōshū. Appears to be derived as a compound, but the constituent parts remain obscure. The stem みじか (mijika) is also found in compounds, and in the now-obsolete adjective forms 短(みじか)やか (mijikayaka) and 短(みじか)らか (mijikaraka), indicating that the か (ka) is not the…
aile: 気が短い, 手短
Mostly superseded in modern usage by 低い (hikui, “short (in height)”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kártas Proto-Slavic *kõrtъ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *kortъ̀kъ Old Polish krótki Polish krótki Inherited from Old Polish krótki.
quickly, rapidly, promptly, fast · unexpectedly, out of the blue, abruptly, suddenly
köken: From Proto-Finnic *äkkidä, the partitive singular of *äkki. Cognates include Estonian äkki, Ingrian äkkii, Karelian äkkie, Veps äkkid and Votic äčči.
aile: yhtäkkiä
Nyt äkkiä tänne!
Tämä tuli kyllä vähän äkkiä, mutta totta kai minä suostun.
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excurtus, from Latin curtus (“short”); the initial s- may also have been added later in Romanian, or appeared as a result of the influence of scurta, from excurtare. Compare also Aromanian shcurtu. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.