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English word short comes from Proto-Indo-European *kor-, Proto-Germanic *skertaną (To cut off.)
*kor- (Proto-Indo-European)
*skertaną (Proto-Germanic)
To cut off.
*skurtaz (Proto-Germanic)
Lacking, deficient. Short.
sċeort (Old English)
scort (Old English)
Short.
schort (Middle English)
short (English)
(finance) Having a negative position in.. Deficient in. (baseball) A shortstop.. (finance) A short sale.. (finance) A short seller.. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.. A short circuit.. A short film.. A summary account.. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size (cricket, Of a ball) [...]