köken: Inherited from Old French curt, from Latin curtus.
aile: à court, à court terme, avoir la mémoire courte, circuit court, couper court, court sur pattes, court-circuit, courte échelle, mémoire à court terme, pendre haut et court
short (having a small distance from one end to another) · short (having little duration) · dim-witted, slow
çekim: çoğul cortos
eş: lerdo, tardo
zıt: largo
köken: Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt and short. The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content.
aile: a corto plazo, alicorto, cortedad, cortísimo, cortito, corto de luces, corto siglo veinte, cortocircuito, cortometraje, de corto
köken: Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kïs- (“short, narrrow, to squize”). Cognate with Karakhanid قِسْغا (“qïsɣā”), Turkish kısa, Turkmen gysga, Salar qısga, Crimean Tatar qısqa, etc.
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: * 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Mostly superseded in modern usage by 低い (hikui, “short (in height)”).
to intervene (to become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action)
çekim: geçmiş interweniowano · şimdiki interweniuje
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷənjō Latin veniō Latin interveniōbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish interweniować From Latin interveniō + Polish -ować.
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-.
From Proto-Finnic *puuttudak. Related to Estonian puuduma, Karelian puutuo, Livonian pūtõ and Votic puutoz (~ puutos). The long -tt- is probably by contamination with that of puuttua (etymology 2).