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”).
köken: From Italian pezzo, ultimately from Late Latin pettia (“piece, portion”). Compare French pièce, Spanish pieza, Yiddish פּיעסע (pyese), Russian пье́са (pʹjésa), Portuguese peça.