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viegls

Pronunciation: [vìɛɡls]

“viegls” is a Latvian word. Its 20 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. light, lightweight (which is not heavy, has low weight, low mass)
  2. light, small (smaller, less important, less powerful than others of its kind)
  3. light (giving the impression of low weight, lightness, with a relatively simple, fine structure; showing agility, grace)
  4. light, thin (such that it is not saturated, thick, dense, concentrated; (of air) easy to breathe)
  5. light, with low saturation
  6. light, thin; not very warm
  7. light (not intense, not irritating)
  8. light, dilute, weak (not concentrated, not thick)
  9. light (easy to digest; not very nourishing)
  10. light (not demanding, which can be carried out without much effort)
  11. easy (not difficult to solve, to decide, to learn, not requiring much mental effort to understand or appreciate)
  12. light, mild, slight (not full of consequences, not causing too many unwanted feelings)
  13. easy, volatile (which happens quickly, without much resistance)
  14. light, easy (in which there are no difficulties, hardships, complications)
  15. light (pleasant, associated with positive emotions; free, unconstrained)
  16. light, nice, pleasant
  17. light (which expresses itself to a small extent; not intensive, not energetic)
  18. light, slight, mild (barely perceptible; not very significant; not fully expressed)
  19. mild (not intense)
  20. light (not hard, not severe)

Etymology

This word apparently resulted from the merging of two independent etymologies: (a) the same stem as liegs (“gentle, tender”), whose older form *liegvs apparently underwent metathesis to yield viegls, and (b) Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, to bend”) with an extra g, yielding *weyg-, from which Proto-Baltic *weig-, *wieg-, *wīg-, *wig-, from which, with a suffix -lo, Latvian viegls (cf.…

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