kaum

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Frequentie

A2
Dialecten

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

kuum

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/kaʊ̯m/
Etymologie (Engels)

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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