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.
button (on clothes) · button (mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger)
çekim: çoğul түймелер · tamlayan түйменің
köken: From Proto-Turkic *düg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (tügmä, “button”); Bashkir төймә (töymə, “button”), Kyrgyz түймө (tüymö, “button”), Uzbek tugma (“button”), Uyghur تۈگمە (tügme, “button”), Crimean Tatar dögme (“button”), Turkish düğme (“button”), etc.
button (on clothes) · button (mechanical device that you press) · bead (of abacus, rosary, etc.)
çekim: çoğul төймәләр · tamlayan төймәнең
köken: From *tügme (“button”), from Proto-Turkic *tüg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”). Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (tügmä, “button”); Kazakh түйме (tüime, “button”), Kumyk тюйме (tüyme, “button”), Kyrgyz түймө (tüymö, “button”), Uzbek tugma (“button”), Uyghur تۈگمە (tügme, “button”), Crimean Tatar dögme (“button”), Turkish düğme (“button”), etc.
scarce, not much of something · somewhat less than
çekim: karşılaştırma knappare · üstünlük knappast
köken: From Middle Low German knap, whence also German knapp, Danish knap. Further cognate with Dutch knap. Compare also Danish næppe (“hardly at all”).
hardly, barely (with difficulty) · hardly, barely, scarcely (in a very small measure) · only, just (no more than)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Vulgar Latin ad Proto-Indo-European *weyk- Proto-Italic *wiks Vulgar Latin vix Vulgar Latin *ad vix Romanian abi Romanian abia Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad vix, from ad + vix. The original form was abi, a variant found in some dialects; the final -a was added by analogy with adverbs like aci(a), aiure(a), acole(a). This suffixation…