kaum

Meaning

  1. barely, hardly
  2. difficult, nearly impossible
  3. little

Concepts

barely

hardly

with difficulty

scarcely

just

no more than

merely

least

little less

little

shrill

narrowly

a bit

a little

somewhat

rarely

seldom

difficultly

slowly

step by step

soon

only

scarce

thinly

remotely

uneath

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaʊ̯m/
Etymology

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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