paufrec : poor
The Illunse word for poor (not wealthy or scanty) is paufrec.
This word is a mixture of the Latin word for poor which is pauper (poor; scanty, meager; unproductive; cheap), and the Old English word for poor which is þearfendlic (or þearfa), which I transliterate to thearfendlic, (needy, poor; of persons, indigent, destitute; of things, scanty, insufficient).
There will be another word for poor when it means miserable or wretched.
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