Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/3
Original entry ↗adj
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically. · Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height. · Having little duration. · Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
adv
Abruptly, curtly, briefly. · Unawares. · Without achieving a goal or requirement. · Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
prep
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryDeficient in. · Having a negative position in.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.? Proto-Germanic *skertaną Proto-Germanic *skurtaz Proto-West Germanic *skurt Old English sċort Middle English schort English short From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Doublet of shirt, skirt, and curt. Cognates Cognate with Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. See more at shirt.
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- Root classification mention*(s)ker-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionschortenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċeortang
- Inherited-form mention*skurtgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skurtazgem-pro · short
- Inherited-form mention*(s)ker-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionshirten
- Doublet mentionskirten
- Doublet mentioncurten
- Cognate mentionshortsco
- Cognate mentioncourtfr
- Cognate mentionkortnl
- Cognate mentionkurzde
- Cognate mentionscurzgoh · short
- Cognate mentionschurzgmh
- Cognate mentionskortanon · to lack
- Cognate mentionskorteda
- Cognate mentionshkurtsq · short, brief
- Cognate mentioncurtusla · shortened, incomplete
- Cognate mention*kortъkъsla-pro
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