wenig.
little, few (a small amount, a small number)
Meaning & usage
little, few (a small amount, a small number)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German weinec, wēnec (“marginal”), from Old High German *weinag, wēnag (“miserable”), from Proto-Germanic *wainagaz. The form with -ei- is original; that with -ē- arose through conflation with the morphologically simpler Old High German wē (“woe”), akin to English woe. The diphthong -ei- later on regularly became -ē- in several dialects, which further strengthened the monophthongal form wenig. Cognate with Dutch weinig, Low German weinig, Hunsrik wenich, Yiddish ווייניק (veynik). The comparative minder comes from Middle High German minder, minre, minner; the Middle High German superlative is minnest, minst. Both are related to min.
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