köken: PIE word *ḱóm From Old French contraction, borrowed from Latin contractiōnem, the accusative singular of contractiō (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); contrahō is derived from con-…
köken: From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei.
reduction (act, process, or result of reducing) · downsizing (act of reducing number of employees) · reduction (lowering the value by reducing it to something simpler)