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Etymology 1
Adverb From, , , , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. According to Kroonen (2013), from a northern Indo-European root or *leh₃is-, which he connects to 🇨🇬.

Determiner and preposition from, , , , from , from , from (see above). Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb from, from the determiner.

Noun from, from the determiner.

Adverb

 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.
 * 1) To a smaller extent or degree.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَقَلّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: أقل
 * Belarusian: менш
 * Bourguignon: moins
 * Bulgarian: по-ма́лко
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 更少, 不太, 不那么
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malpli
 * Estonian: vähem
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: mancul
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: mwens
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: minus
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ...より少ない, それほど...ない
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: mazāk
 * Macedonian: помалку
 * Malay:
 * Norman: mouôins, meins
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Picard: moins
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мање
 * Roman:, , manjše
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, менш
 * Urdu: کم
 * Vietnamese:

Determiner

 * 1)  ; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser.
 * 2) A smaller amount of; not as much.
 * 3)  Fewer; a smaller number of.
 * 1) A smaller amount of; not as much.
 * 2)  Fewer; a smaller number of.
 * 1) A smaller amount of; not as much.
 * 2)  Fewer; a smaller number of.
 * 1)  Fewer; a smaller number of.
 * 1)  Fewer; a smaller number of.
 * 1)  Fewer; a smaller number of.
 * 1)  Fewer; a smaller number of.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَقَلّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: أقل
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌰
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: síður
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Luxembourgish: manner, wéineger
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: mai puțin
 * Russian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mjeńšy
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ме́ньше
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: أَقَلّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: أقل
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐλάσσων
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ме́ньше
 * Vietnamese:


 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Mandarin:
 * Romanian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: по-малък
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: ме́ньший
 * Vietnamese:

Preposition

 * 1) Minus; not including

Translations

 * Arabic: نَاقِص
 * Egyptian Arabic: ناقص
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, pois lukien,
 * Norwegian: minus, fratrukket
 * Portuguese:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To make less; to lessen.
 * 2) * 1386-90,, 
 * What he will make lesse, he lesseth.
 * 1) * c. 1650, Patrick Gordon of Ruthven, A short Abridgement of Britane's Distemper, from the yeares of God 1639 to 1649, printed 1844 for the Spalding Club
 * Som of the wiser sort, divining upon this vission, attrebute to the pen-knyves the lenth of tym before this should com to pass, and it hath been observed by sindrie that the earles of that hous befor wer the richest in the kingdom, having treasure and store besyde them, but ever since the addittion of this so great a revenue, they have lessed the stock by heavie burdens of debt and ingagment.
 * 1) * 1816, "Joseph Wharton" [obituary notice], Poulson's Advertiser, quoted in Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia: 1664 to 1880, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1880)
 * The protracted term of life, and the lingering illness through which this gentleman had passed, had neither impaired the original vigour of his mind, nor lessed the uncommon warmth of his affections.

Translations

 * German: ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Lesser; smaller.

Noun

 * 1) A smaller amount or quantity.

Etymology 2
From, , from , as in.

Conjunction

 * 1)  unless

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) boiled meat

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to pretend (to be)

Etymology 1
Suggested by Stokes to be from, from , similar to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) benefit, advantage

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  loess

Etymology
, pronunciation spelling of, alternatively interpreted as a pronunciation spelling of a clipping of.

Adjective

 * 1) tired (of something irritating)

Declension
Only used predicatively with the common gender singular. The comparative form and superlative  exist but are considered nonstandard, so this word is mostly compared periphrastically.