English
slightness
From slight + -ness.
A compound of slight + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-
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Proto-Germanic *slihtaz ‘slippery, flat, level, plain’
Proto-West Germanic *sliht
Old English sliht ‘smooth, level’
Middle English slight ‘bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial,…’
English slight
Today it means
noun The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
Sources
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Etymograph / slightness