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kort.

short

4 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

adj/kɔrt/

  1. short

Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus. Cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort, Danish kort and Norwegian Bokmål kort.

noun/kʊrt/

  1. a card; a piece of stiff paper or plastic.

    neuter

  2. a playing card

    neuter

  3. a card game, a game involving playing cards

    neuter · uncountable
    Ska vi spela kort?

  4. photograph

    neuter
Where this word comes from

Probably from Danish kort (“a card”) or possibly from a not referenced Middle Low German word kort known in Low German, kort (“a card”). Cognate with Icelandic kort (“a card, a map”) and Faroese kort (“a card, a map”), both from Old Norse kort (“a map”), all based on a variant of the Latin words charta and carta.

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