köken: From Middle High German gemein, from Old High German gimeini, from Proto-West Germanic *gamainī. Cognate with Old English gemǣne, English mean, Dutch gemeen, Danish gemen, Swedish gemen and Norwegian gemen.
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: Inherited from Middle Dutch cleine, from Old Dutch cleini, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī.
aile: allerkleinst, een kopje kleiner maken, Jan en klein Piereke, kbv, klein krijgen, kleinburgerij, kleindochter, kleine boodschap, kleine luiden, kleine visserij
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.
köken: First attested as Late Old Korean 捺則 in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103. First attested in the Gugeupbang eonhae (救急方諺解 / 구급방언해), 1466, as Middle Korean ᄂᆞᆽ다〮 (Yale: nòc-tá). However, 15th century attestations of ᄂᆞᆽ다 (nocta) only appear in the sense "to subside (of a swelling)". The sense "to be low" only appears since the 1570s, which suggests that it is a back-formation from ᄂᆞᄌᆞᆨᄒᆞ다…
köken: From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus. Cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort, Danish kort and Norwegian Bokmål kort.
aile: kortbyxor, korthet
Thomas! Thomas! [...]viskade nu Lotten, ty det var den korte som segrat, och hon hade igenkänt honom.
Kortaste avståndet mellan två punkter är den krokiga linjen, ju krokigare, desto kortare.
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.