schort
Middle English
/ʃɔrt/
adj
Definitions
- short as opposed to being tall or long
- short in duration, brief, quick
- ephemeral, having a short lifetime
- scarce, rare, scanty
- mean, rude, disrespectful
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sċort inherited from *skurt inherited from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (short).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skurtaz
Gloss
short
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
短
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Shorty English
- antishort English
- megashort English
- short English
- short fetched English
- short-fetched English
- short-legged English
- short-lived English
- short-tailed hawk English
- shortage English
- shortarse English
- shortboard English
- shortbow English
- shortbread English
- shortcake English
- shortchange English
- shortclothes English
- shortcode English
- shortcrust English
- shortcut English
- shorten English
- shortfall English
- shortfalling English
- shortfetched English
- shortfic English
- shortfin English
- shortform English
- shortgown English
- shortgrass English
- shorth English
- shorthair English
- shorthaired English
- shorthand English
- shorthanded English
- shorthead English
- shorthold English
- shorthorn English
- shortie English
- shortify English
- shortish English
- shortleaf English
- shortline English
- shortly English
- shortness English
- shortnose English
- shortsea English
- shortsheet English
- shortsome English
- shortstop English
- shortsword English
- shorttail English
- shortwall English
- shortward English
- shortwards English
- shortwave English
- shortwing English
- shorty English
- supershort English
- ultrashort English
- shortata Finnish
- Schurz German
- short Italian
- short French
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- *skurtaz Proto-Germanic
- *skurtijǭ Proto-Germanic
- ショート Japanese
- scort Old English
- scortlice Old English
- sċeort Old English
- sċort Old English
- skortr Old Norse
- schurz Old High German
- scurz Old High German
- schurz Middle High German
- *skurt gmw-pro
- short Chinese
- 秀逗 Chinese
- sotpela Tok Pisin