klein

Significat (Anglès)

  1. small, little, tiny, wee, small-scale
  2. little, young (in age)
  3. insignificant

Freqüència

A2
Dialectes

Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden

Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden

chli

Basilea-Camp

Basilea-Camp

glai

Cantó de Sankt Gallen

Cantó de Sankt Gallen

lüzìl

Dades proporcionades per: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/klaɪ̯n/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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").

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