barely, hardly (qualifying verbs or adjectives) · barely any, almost no (qualifying amounts) · difficult, nearly impossible
eş: wenig, schwerlich
köken: From Middle High German kūme, from Old High German kūmo, from Proto-Germanic *kūmaz, *kūmijaz (“weak, pitiful, frail”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, cry”). Cognate with English comely and archaic Dutch kuim (“barely”).
köken: Probably from Vulgar Latin *peccuinnus, from *pittīnus, perhaps from a Celtic or Frankish root (cf. Proto-Celtic *biggos (“small”); Old Irish bec, Irish beag, Welsh bach/bychan, Breton bihan). Compare Portuguese pequeno, cf. also French petit.
aile: en pequeño, letra pequeña, peque, pequeña burguesía, Pequeña Martinica, pequeña pantalla, pequeñez
çekim: karşılaştırma più piccolo · üstünlük minimo
eş: angusto, basso, breve, corto, esiguo, esile
zıt: grande, grosso
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from: * An onomatopoeic root or children's/nursery word *pikk-, *picc-. * From Vulgar Latin *pikk (“little”), related to *piccāre (“to pierce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). * From picca (“point”). * From Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), which is linked to French petit and English piece.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰕 (az, “few”); Kazakh аз (az), Kyrgyz аз (az), Uzbek oz, Turkish az (“few, small in number”).
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.
few, little (not as many/much as usual or as expected) · a little, some
çekim: karşılaştırma kevesebb · üstünlük legkevesebb
zıt: sok
köken: Possibly derived from Proto-Uralic *kepä (“light (weight)”); compare with Estonian kebja (“easy, quick”), Finnish kepeä (“light (weight), easy, quick”), and Northern Sami geahpas (“light”).
aile: kevesbedik, kevesbít, kevesbül, kevesedmagával, kevesell, kevesen, kevésbé, kevéske, kevéssé, aki sokat markol, keveset fog
köken: Etymology tree Latin ali- Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷó- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *kʷótider. Proto-Italic *kʷot Latin quot Latin aliquot From ali- + quot.
aile: aliquotiēns
Nūllum iam aliquot annīs facinus exstitit nisi per tē, nūllum flāgitium sine tē; […] .
Etimoloji
From Middle Dutch weinich, wenich, from Old Dutch *weinag, *wēnag, from Proto-Germanic *wainagaz. Cognate with German wenig (“few”).