köken: Inherited from Middle French calme, probably borrowed from Italian calma, from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma) (or alternatively through the intermediate of an Iberian language as opposed to Italian).
aile: calme avant la tempête, calme olympien, calme plat, du calme, garder son calme
köken: Inherited from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukos, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little”). Compare Catalan poc, French peu, Italian poco, Portuguese pouco, further English few.
calm, tranquil (of a person, weather, mood, situation, etc.) · no worries
çekim: karşılaştırma lugnare · üstünlük lugnast
köken: From Old Swedish lugn or lygn (“calm lake surface”), from Old Norse lygn. Compare Norwegian logn (“calm (without wind)”), and Icelandic lón (“calm water”).
– Förlåt att jag förstörde vasen! – Äh, det är lugnt.
slow (which moves so as to cover relatively small distances in every time interval) · slow (which does not happen quickly, swiftly) · slow (without much action, without much happening)
çekim: karşılaştırma lēnāks · üstünlük vislēnākais
zıt: ātrs, straujš, ašs, nikns
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lēnas, Proto-Indo-European *leh₁-en-os, from *leh₁- (“to let, to allow”) (whence also Latvian laist (“to let, to allow”), q.v.). The semantic evolution was probably: “which is allowed (to do something)” > “not dangerous, gentle, calm” > “slow.” Cognates include Lithuanian lė́nas (“slow, peaceful”), Proto-Slavic *lěnъ (“lazy, slow”), Latin lēnis (“gentle, slow”).
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