dwarf

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
2. A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
3. An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
4. A dwarf star.

Adj

Miniature.

Verb

1. To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
2. To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
3. To make appear insignificant.
4. To become (much) smaller.
5. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

Concepts

nain

naine

éclipser

rapetisser

écraser

nabot

minus

naniser

faire paraître petit

freluquet

courteaud

faire de l'ombre

se nanifier

buffle

nanifier

chétif

enfant

🧒

gamin

gnome

ombre

pygmée

vache

🐮

Synonymes

midget

pygmy

gnome

small person

runt

manikin

pigmy

midgit

diminutive

elf

🧝

stunt

tiny

undersized

short person

pygmean

small

dwarfish

stunted

short

mannikin

blighted

little man

dwarf star

lilliputian

overshadow

little person

nanus

hunchback

shadow

miniaturize

minim

minimize

namely

of small size

outshine

Buddha

pipsqueak

razee

retard

belittle

scrimp

shorter

shrink

small man

sprites

very short person

main sequence star

tortoise

troll

🧌

Rama

undeveloped

wight

withering

dwarf galaxy

Lilliputian

little brat

atrophy

fish

🐟

stoop-shouldered

stunted person

cow

🐮

gnome 1

dwarfism

normal dwarf

eclipse

fairies

fairy

🧚

contraction

goblin

gremlin

hog

hunchbacked

kid

🧒

little

low

child

🧒

midge

bushman

mini

miniaturise

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dwɔɹf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: dwergh

Hérité de ancien anglais: dweorg

Appartenant à écossais: dwerch

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: twerc

Appartenant à allemand: Zwerg

Appartenant à vieux norrois: dvergr

Appartenant à suédois: dvärg

Appartenant à Old Frisian: dwirg

Appartenant à frison occidental: dwerch

Appartenant à Middle Low German: dwerch

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: dwerch

Appartenant à néerlandais: dwerg

In summary

From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
Cognate with Scots dwerch; Old High German twerc (German Zwerg); Old Norse dvergr (Swedish dvärg); Old Frisian dwirg (West Frisian dwerch); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg, Dwarch); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg).
The Modern English noun has undergone complex phonetic changes. The form dwarf is the regular continuation of Old English dweorg, but the plural dweorgas would have given rise to dwarrows and the oblique stem dweorge- would have led to dwery. These forms are sometimes found as the nominative singular in Middle English texts and in English dialects. A parallel case is that of Old English burg giving burgh, borough, burrow, bury.