rets
Pronunciation: [ɾæts]
“rets” is a Latvian word. Its 11 meanings in English:
adjective
- thin, sparse (formed of a number of similar elements placed at a relatively large distance from one another)
- sparse (not close to one another)
- thin (with gaps, spaces between the threads)
- thin (not concentrated)
- thin (having few members)
- rare (of which there is only a small number)
- rare, infrequent, uncommon (not widely known, distributed, used)
- rare, uncommon (not normal, not ordinary)
- rare one(s) (only a few, not many)
- rare, infrequent (repeated only after long intervals)
- rare (which appears, happens infrequently)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *retas and cognate with Lithuanian rẽtas. Probably also related to Proto-Slavic *rědъkъ and Latvian dialectal rēds, but there is no clear explanation for the difference in vowel length. Traditionally further compared with irt (“to disintegrate, to fall apart”), but this seems problematic if irt derives from laryngeal-final *h₂erH-.
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