kaum

Significat (Anglès)

  1. barely, hardly (qualifying verbs or adjectives)
  2. barely any, almost no (qualifying amounts)
  3. difficult, nearly impossible
  4. as soon as, immediately after

Conceptes

Freqüència

A2
Dialectes

Basilea-Camp

Basilea-Camp

kuum

Dades proporcionades per: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/kaʊ̯m/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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”).

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