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less English Alternative forms en -lesse obsolete Etymology en :inh enm:-les 1 From en enm -les, enm -leas, from en ang -lēas -less (compare ang lēas devoid of, loose from, false), from en gmw-pro *-laus, from en gem-pro *-lausaz, from gem-pro *lausaz loose. (Not related to en less, which derives from gem-pro *laisiz, gem-pro *laisizô.) Cognate with sco -less, fy -leas, stq -loos, nl -loos, nds -los, de -los, da -løs, sv -lös, is -laus. More at en loose. Pronunciation en /ləs/ /lɪs/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--less.wav Southern England Suffix - more lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun. aweless, skill-less, artless, doubtless, countless, soulless, will-less, tireless. en 2013 September-October w:Henry Petroski w:American Scientist The Evolution of Eyeglasses The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight. Usage notes Adjectives formed using en -less often form nouns by the addition of en -ness (e.g. en helplessness), but generally do not form nouns by the addition of other noun-forming endings. A notable exception to the usual usage of this suffix is that en doubtless is usually an adverb, rather than an adjective. Synonyms lacking en an-, en ex-, en -free Antonyms lacking en -ed, en -y, en -some (having in considerable amount), en -ful (having in abundance) Derived terms en Translations lacking Abkhaz: ab -ыда -yda Acehnese: ace hana Afar: aa sinni Afrikaans: af ont- Akan: ak nim, ak a enni mu Albanian: sq pa Arabic: ar بِلَا, ar غير غَيْر ... Tunisian Arabic: aeb لا -le Armenian: hy ան- Azerbaijani: az -siz Basque: eu -gabe Belarusian: be без- Bengali: bn -হীন Bulgarian: bg без Catalan: ca sense Cebuano: ceb walay Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 無 無- wú- Chuvash: cv -сӗр Czech: cs bez- Danish: da -løs Dutch: nl -loos, nl zonder Esperanto: eo sen- Estonian: et -ta, et -tu Faroese: fo -leysur Finnish: fi -ton, fi -tön French: fr sans sans ... Frisian: West Frisian: fy -leas Galician: gl sen Georgian: ka უ-, ka უ- -ო, ka არა- German: de -los Greek: el α-, el αν- , el λιπο- Greenlandic: kl -eqanngitsoq Gujarati: gu -હીન Haitian Creole: ht e- Hausa: ha mara, ha marasa Hebrew: he אל 'ál- Hindi: hi -हीन Hungarian: hu -talan/hu -telen, hu -atlan/hu -etlen, hu -tlan/hu -tlen, hu -hatatlan/hu -hetetlen, hu mentes, hu nélküli Iban: iba nadai Icelandic: is -laus, is -vana Ido: io sen- Igbo: ig enweghị Indonesian: id nir- Irish: ga gan Italian: it senza, it in-, it s-, it dis- Japanese: ja 無し -無し -なし, -nashi, ja 無 無- む-, mu-, ja ない -ない -nai, ja 低- てい-, tei- Jingpho: kac n rawng ai Kannada: kn -ವಿಲ್ಲದ Kapampangan: pam alang Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr bê- Kyrgyz: ky -сыз Lao: lo ບໍ່ມີ Latin: la sine, la in-, la ne-, la se- Latvian: lv bez Lithuanian: lt be- Luo: luo onge Macedonian: mk без- Malay: ms nir-, ms nis- preceding vowels and letters k, t and c Māori: mi kore compounded after nouns Mari: Eastern Mari: mhr -дыме Mongolian: mn -гүй Nepali: ne -न- N'Ko: nqo ߕߴߊ߬ ߟߊ߫ Norwegian: no -løs Oromo: om kan hin qabne Ossetian: os ӕнӕ- ænæ- Papiamentu: pap sin Persian: prefix fa بیـ bi- Polish: pl bez- Portuguese: pt sem, pt des- Punjabi: pa -ਹੀਨ Romani: rom bi- Romanian: ro fără Russian: ru без- без(ъ)- / ru бес- бес(ъ)- Scottish Gaelic: gd gun Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh без- Latin: sh bez- Seychellois Creole: crs san Slovak: sk bez- Slovene: sl brez Spanish: es sin, es des- Swahili: sw bila Swedish: sv -lös Tagalog: tl pugot ang, tl walang Telugu: te -లేని Tumbuka: tum wambura Turkish: tr -siz, tr -sız, tr -suz, tr -süz Tuvan: tyv чок čok Udmurt: udm -тэм, udm ӧвӧл övöl Ukrainian: uk без- Venda: ve zwisina, ve asina Vietnamese: vi cây đinh không Welsh: cy di-, cy di Yiddish: yi ־לאָז Yoruba: yo àìní Anagrams en elss ELSS SELs SLEs en productive suffixes Scots Etymology sco :inh enm:-les 1 From sco enm -les, from sco ang -lēas -less. Suffix sco suffix adjective-forming suffixes adjective-forming suffix comparative mair -less superlative maist -less lacking; without. Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun. Derived terms sco