köken: Inherited from Old French poi, from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukos, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few”, “little”). Compare Catalan poc, Italian poco, Portuguese pouco, Spanish poco. Cognate with English few.
Il est peu intelligent.
Pour obtenir de bons prix certains négociateurs emploieraient parfois des méthodes peu conventionnelles
slightly, a little, a bit, somewhat (of a span of time, or an amount or degree) · used to preface and soften a negative expression · an indirect expression of refusal: well, umm
köken: From ちっと (chitto), itself a geminated emphatic form of ちと (chito), originally composed of ち (chi, “small”, not used in isolation; cognate with the chi in 小さい chīsai) + と (to, adverbial particle). First attested in 1477.
köken: From archaic kawalec + -ek, from Middle Low German kāvele (“wood for drawing raffles”) + -ec, from Proto-West Germanic *kabl (“stick, lot”), with semantic shift "wood for drawing lots" > "small piece".
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buccata, from Latin bucca. Compare French bouchée, Italian boccata, Portuguese and Spanish bocado. Doublet of bușeu.
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan mica, from Vulgar Latin *mīcca, from Latin mīca (“crumb”) with expression gemination of /k/. Compare Occitan mica and Aragonese mica.
aile: de mica en mica, miqueta, una mica, una mica de
köken: Dissimilation of brúire, from Middle Irish brúar (“crumbs, bits”), from the root of Old Irish bruïd (“to break in pieces”), from Proto-Celtic *bruseti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”).