dwarf

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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

Têgeh

bejnbost

باڵابسته

cûce

Berevajî

ettin, giant

Hevwate

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

Werger

nain

Zwerg

enano

nano

dwerg

anão

naine

cüce

قزم

νάνος

nana

nano

anã

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/dwɔɹf/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: dwergh

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: dweorg

Hevwate bi skotî: dwerch

Hevwate bi Old High German: twerc

Hevwate bi almanî: Zwerg

Hevwate bi Old Norse: dvergr

Hevwate bi swêdî: dvärg

Hevwate bi Old Frisian: dwirg

Hevwate bi frîsî: dwerch

Hevwate bi Middle Low German: dwerch

Hevwate bi Middle Dutch: dwerch

Hevwate bi holendî: 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 droich, dwerch (“dwarf, midget”); Old High German twerc (German, Luxembourgish Zwerg (“dwarf”)); Old Norse dvergr (Danish dværg (“dwarf, midget”), Faroese dvørgur (“dwarf”), Icelandic dvergur (“dwarf”), Norwegian Bokmål dverg (“dwarf”), Norwegian Nynorsk dverg, verg (“dwarf”), Swedish dvärg (“dwarf”)); Old Frisian dwirg (Saterland Frisian Dwärch (“dwarf”), West Frisian dwerch (“dwarf”)); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg (“dwarf”)); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg (“dwarf”)).
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.