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kails

Pronunciation: [kaîls]

“kails” is a Latvian word. Its 11 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. naked, nude, bare (without clothes on)
  2. bald (without hair)
  3. without leaves, without further growth (branches, twigs, bark)
  4. without plants, without plant life, vegetation; without trees or plants nearby
  5. without, or with little, snow
  6. naked (without or with little furniture; without comfort)
  7. undeveloped
  8. bare (by itself, without anything in addition to it)
  9. bald (without justification or evidence; inconclusive)
  10. naked (without explanation, without illustrative material)
  11. naked (thinly disguised, or undisguised; easy to see or read)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Baltic *kail-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *koil-, the o-grade (plus an extra -l) of Proto-Indo-European *kei- /*skei- (“to cut, to divide, to separate”). For the meaning change, compare Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō, “to skin, to flay”), δέρμᾰ (dérmă, “skin”), then from “skin” to “bare, naked”. Cognates include Lithuanian káilis (“skin”).

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