çekim: karşılaştırma bloßer · üstünlük am bloßesten
köken: From Middle High German blōȥ, from Old High German blōz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaut, from Proto-Germanic *blautaz (“void, emaciated, soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw- (“weak, frightened”). Cognate with Dutch bloot (“bare, naked”), Danish blød (“soft, weak”), Danish blot (“merely, just”), Swedish blott (“merely, just”), French blouse. More at blouse.
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.
eş: только, всего, единственно, исключительно, лишь только, только
köken: Old East Slavic лише (liše), originally comparative form of лихъ (lixŭ, “bad”). Compare with Ukrainian лише́ (lyšé), лишень (lyšenʹ) and лиш (lyš), Carpathian Rusyn лиш (lyš).
aile: всего лишь, лишь бы, лишь только, только лишь
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…
only, exclusively (excluding everything else) · just, only, merely, solely (when something is not as great or as much or as serious as could be expected) · for a reason that the speaker does not want to specify
eş: csakis, csupán, csupáncsak, egyedül, egyes-egyedül, kizárólag
köken: Perhaps from שָׁעָהכְּ עַד (ád ksha'á) or הוּאכְּשֶׁ עַד (ád kshehú). Attested since Late Antiquity. The spelling with י may have arisen to disambiguate the vowel before ו so as not to be read as וֹ – as in analogous words like סתיו /סְתָו (stáv) and the possessive ending ־ָיו (-áv).
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
Shift from noun 計(はか)り, 測(はか)り, 量(はか)り (hakari, “measurement, amount, full amount”), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 計(はか)る, 測(はか)る, 量(はか)る (hakaru, “to measure, to weigh, to calculate”). The meaning seems to have shifted from amount to fully, and from there to just or only.