litel
Middle English
adj
Definitions
- little (small; not large)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English lytel inherited from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (little, tending to stoop, small, crouched).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*lūtilaz
Gloss
little, tending to stoop, small, crouched
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
小
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Little Saigon English
- Little Tokyo English
- Littlemill English
- belittle English
- little English
- little bittern English
- little name English
- littleneck English
- littleness English
- littlie English
- littlish English
- littlun English
- littly English
- litty English
- lout English
- *lewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *lūtilaz Proto-Germanic
- lytel Old English
- lytel finger Old English
- lȳtel Old English
- Lucilinburhuc Old High German
- *lūtil gmw-pro
- *luttil Old Dutch
- luttik Old Saxon
- luttil Old Saxon
- likkle Jamaican Creole