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Same word for tiny stars, fantasy miners, and humans the rest of the world misjudges.
means A person, creature, animal, or plant noticeably smaller than the usual size — and in folklore, a small humanlike being skilled in mining and metalwork.
from From Old English 'dweorg,' with cousins across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'dvergr,' German 'Zwerg.' The original sense leaned toward a small supernatural being, and only later did the word stretch to cover anything undersized, from people to stars. The astronomical 'dwarf star' is a 20th-century borrowing of the same idea: small for its kind. Note the plural fault line — older usage favored 'dwarfs,' but Tolkien deliberately revived 'dwarves' for his mythic miners, and that spelling now haunts fantasy everywhere.
- star fate
- Our Sun ends as a white dwarf
- density flex
- A white dwarf teaspoon weighs about a ton
- planet demotion
- Pluto got reclassified a dwarf planet in 2006
- old norse
- Dvergr myth gave dwarves their famed smithing skill
- red majority
- Red dwarfs are the galaxy's most common stars
tyrion lannister — character in game of thrones, 4'5" tall, played by peter dinklage
verne troyer — actor and entertainer, 2'8" tall, played mini-me in austin powers
pluto — dwarf planet in our solar system, reclassified by iau in 2006