köken: Inherited from Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to cleave, stick”). Cognate with Dutch klein and English clean. Doublet of clean. For a similar semantic development, cf. zierlich (orig. "decorative", today "petite").
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: 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: 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: 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.
low, short (situated close to, or even below, the ground; not high or lofty) · short (of comparatively small height) · low (situated close to some reference plane)
çekim: karşılaştırma niższy · üstünlük najniższy
zıt: wysoki
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-? Proto-Indo-European *níder. Proto-Slavic *nizъ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *nízъkъ Old Polish niski Polish niski Inherited from Old Polish niski.
çekim: karşılaştırma humilior · üstünlük humillimus
köken: From humus + -ilis. The resemblance to Ancient Greek χθαμαλός (khthamalós) is cognate, but probably accidental, and not sufficient to assume a direct inheritance from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰemelo- (a derivative from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”)). Compare also Middle English dingle (“depression, hollow”) (from Old English *dyngel).
short (having relatively little length, less than average length) · short, laconic · short, brief (lasting relatively little time, having relatively little duration; syn. neilgs)
çekim: karşılaştırma īsāks · üstünlük visīsākais
zıt: garš, ilgs
köken: From Proto-Baltic *isas, *insas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to move fast, forcefully, to drive”) (from earlier “to hit, to move, to drive”). This root may have resulted from metathesis of *sey- (“to extend one's arms; strain, strength”), whence sist (“to hit”). Semantic development: “to hit, to move” > “to knock down, to reduce (with a blow)” > “made smaller, shorter” (participle).…