kleen

• klään (eastern Moselle Franconian, except Westerwald)
• klein (Kölsch; Westerwald)

From Old High German kleini, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī.

• IPA^(key): /kleːn/

kleen (masculine kleene, feminine kleen, comparative kleener, superlative et kleenste)

1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) little; small

   Mer hann ene kleene Jaade hengerm Huus.

   We have a small garden behind our house.

• Even in dialects that do not have a general n-deletion rule, kleen does commonly lose the final -n in the neuter nominative and accusative before consonants other than h—by analogy with the structure words een (“one”) and keen (“no”). Thus, for example, in Ripuarian: e klee bessje (“a little bit”).

• klenn

From Central Franconian kleen, from Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkleːn/
• Rhymes: -eːn
• Syllabification: kleen

kleen (comparative kleener, superlative kleenest)

1. little (small in size)

   Die Tass is zu kleen. ― The cup is too small.

   Sie hon zweu kleene Hunn. ― They have two little dogs.

2. short (small in height)

   Sie is en kleene Fraa. ― She's a short woman.

3. small; young

   Er is noch en kleenes Kind. ― He is still a small child.

• gros

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “kleen”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 91, column 2

• klein

From Middle Low German kleine, from Old Saxon klēni, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī. Cognate to German and Dutch klein, English clean.

kleen (comparative klener, superlative kleenst)

1. small, little

The following declension only represents one of many possible dialectal grammars.

• lütt