klein

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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

Têgeh

بچووک

hûrik

بچکۆله

biçuk

piçuk

pirtî

sivik

ورد

kurnuk

fîskanî

hûr

Pircarînî

A2
Zarava

Appenzell Ausserrhoden (de)

Appenzell Ausserrhoden (de)

chli

Basel-Landschaft (de)

Basel-Landschaft (de)

glai

Sankt Gallen (de)

Sankt Gallen (de)

lüzìl

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Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/klaɪ̯n/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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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