English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old English -lēas, from lēas (“devoid of”), from Proto-Germanic *lausaz. (Not related to less, which derives from *laisiz, *laisizô.) Cognate to German los, -los.
Suffix [edit]
-less
- Lacking (something)
Usage notes [edit]
- Adjectives formed using -less often form nouns by the addition of -ness, but generally do not form nouns by the addition of other noun-forming endings.
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Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
lacking (suffix)
- Afrikaans: ont- (af)
- Albanian: pa (sq)
- Arabic: غير ... (ar) (ghayr ...)
- Armenian: ան- (hy) (an-)
- Azeri: -sız (az)
- Basque: -gabea (eu)
- Belarusian: без- (be) (bez-)
- Bengali: -হীন (bn) (-hin)
- Bulgarian: без (bg) (bez)
- Catalan: sense (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無- (cmn), 无- (cmn) (wú-)
- Czech: bez- (cs)
- Danish: -løse (da)
- Dutch: -loos (nl), zonder (nl)
- Esperanto: sen (eo)
- Estonian: -ta (et)
- Finnish: -ton (fi), -tön (fi)
- French: sans ... (fr)
- Galician: sen (gl)
- Georgian: უ- (ka) (u-) , უ- -ო (ka) (u- -o)
- German: -los (de)
- Greek: α- (el) (a-) , αν- (el) (an-)
- Gujarati: -હીન (gu) (-hīna)
- Haitian Creole: e-
- Hindi: काटा दिया (hi) (kāṭā diyā)
- Hungarian: -talan (hu)/-telen (hu), -atlan (hu)/-etlen (hu), -tlan (hu)/-tlen (hu), -hatatlan (hu)/-hetetlen (hu), mentes (hu), nélküli (hu)
- Icelandic: -laus (is), -vana (is)
- Irish: gan (ga)
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- Italian: senza (it), in- (it), s- (it), dis- (it)
- Japanese: -無し (ja) (-なし, -nashi), 無- (ja) (む-, mu-), -ない (ja) (-nai)
- Kannada: -ವಿಲ್ಲದ (kn) (-villada)
- Kurdish: bê- (ku)
- Lao: ບໍ່ມີ (lo) (bomi)
- Latin: sine (la), in- (la), ne- (la), se- (la)
- Latvian: bez (lv)
- Lithuanian: be- (lt)
- Macedonian: без- (mk) (bez-)
- Norwegian: -løs (no)
- Persian: (prefix) بی (fa) (bi-)
- Polish: bez- (pl)
- Portuguese: sem (pt)
- Romanian: fără (ro)
- Russian: без(ъ)- (ru) (bez(ʺ)-) / бес(ъ)- (ru) (bes(ʺ)-)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: без- (sh)
- Roman: bez- (sh)
- Slovak: bez- (sk)
- Slovene: brez (sl)
- Spanish: sin (es)
- Swahili: bila (sw)
- Swedish: -lös (sv)
- Tagalog: pugot ang (tl), walang (tl)
- Turkish: -sız (tr), -siz (tr), -suz (tr), -süz (tr)
- Ukrainian: без- (uk) (bez-)
- Vietnamese: cây đinh không (vi)
- Welsh: di- (cy), di (cy)
- Yiddish: ־לאָז (yi) (-loz)
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