köken: From Middle High German al-ein. Cognate with Middle English al-one, English alone, Dutch alleen, Low German alleene (Münsterländisch), alläine (Sauerländisch).
barely, hardly · just, recently, newly · as soon as
eş: a fatica, a mala pena, a stento, con difficoltà, faticosamente, stentatamente
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad poenam. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + pena (“pain, trouble”). Compare French à peine, Spanish apenas, etc.
Ti si sente appena con tutto questo baccano.
È appena arrivata, dalle un po' di tempo per riposarsi.
only (alone in a category) · only (best suited for a task; singularly superior; the best) · only, mere (less than expected)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynosder. Proto-Balto-Slavic *edīˀnas Proto-Slavic *edìnъ Old Polish jedyny Polish jedyny Inherited from Old Polish jedyny. Compare Kashubian jediny.
aile: jeden jedyny, jedyny w swoim rodzaju, jedyne, jedyność
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háykas Sanskrit एक (eka) Sanskrit -ल (-la) Sanskrit एकल (ekala) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮 (ĕkkalla) Prakrit -𑀓- (-ka-) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀬 (ĕkkallaya) Old Hindi अकेला (akelā) Hindi अकेला Inherited from Old Hindi अकेला (akelā), a variant of एकला (ekalā), एकल (ekala) with metathesis, from Prakrit…
just, only, merely, simply · recently, just now · presently
köken: From modus (“measure, mode, manner, way”); the adverb derives from its ablative form. The short vowel in the adverb is an example of iambic shortening that became conventional in Classical Latin (as in ego).
aile: modernus, non modo, solummodo, tantummodo
Tunc, (ille) modo edere volēbat.
Semel modo nōn satis.
Nam et nāvium figūrā et rēmōrum mōtū et inūsitātō genere tormentōrum permōtī barbarī cōnstitērunt āc paulum modo pedem rettulērunt.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *cis (“thread”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ks(i)ʔ or *ksih (“string; cord; rope; thread”). Compare North Central Vietnamese chỉn, Muong chỉl.
aile: cắn chỉ, chỉ tay, gạch chỉ, giun chỉ, kim chỉ