small things; random assortment of things; bits and pieces, odds and ends, dribs and drabs · insignificant details and/or circumstances · unimportant events or activities
köken: Learnedly, from Koine Greek καινοτομία (“novelty, strangeness”) (the ancient sense: "invention"). By surface analysis, καινο- + -τομία from καινός (kainós, “new”) and τομή (tomḗ, “intersection”), τέμνω (témnō, “cut”).
items that are useless or without value, junk, rubbish · a person who is useless or without value, trash
köken: Compound of がら (gara), from がらがら (garagara), an onomatopoeia for the sound of objects bumping against each other + くた (kuta), perhaps a contraction of 芥 (akuta, “trash, rubbish”) or related to verb 朽つ (kutsu, “to rot”, Classical and Old Japanese form of modern 朽ちる (kuchiru, “to rot”)). Compare other terms containing this くた (kuta) element, such as くたくた (kutakuta, “broken down, worn out”), 草臥れる…
köken: Of uncertain origin. Commonly analysed as descending from dialectal 그슥 (geuseuk) or 거슥 (geoseuk), which has been explained as formed by analogy with the Middle Korean interrogative pronoun 므슥 “what” plus the suffix -이 (-i). In Modern Korean, 거시기 functions as an indefinite pronoun and as a discourse marker used when the speaker cannot, does not remember, or does not wish to name something directly.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech cětka, from Proto-Slavic *cęta + -ka, from Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌽𐍄𐌿𐍃 (kintus), from Latin centum. First attested in the 14th century.