peu
French
adv
Definitions
- little; not very much/many
Etymology
Inherited from Old French poi (small hill) inherited from Latin paucus (few, little) inherited from Proto-Italic *paukos derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (few, little, small, smallness, young, offspring).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂w-
Gloss
few, little, small, smallness, young, offspring
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
少
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- few English
- fewer English
- fewfold English
- fewly English
- fewness English
- orthopedics English
- paucality English
- pauperism English
- pauperize English
- pediatric English
- pediatrician English
- pedophobia English
- pony English
- poppet English
- poy English
- puericulture English
- puerilism English
- puerility English
- puerperal English
- puerperium English
- pullulation English
- pusillanimity English
- pusillanimous English
- paucalis Latin
- pauciflorus Latin
- pauciloquium Latin
- paucisetus Latin
- paucitas Latin
- pauculus Latin
- paucus Latin
- paucī Latin
- pauper Latin
- pauper, pauperem Latin
- paupertās Latin
- perpaucus Latin
- podium Latin
- pueritia Latin
- puerperium Latin
- puerīlis Latin
- pullulātus Latin
- pumilus Latin
- pupa Latin
- puppus Latin
- pupus Latin
- putus Latin
- pūpa Latin
- pūpillus Latin
- pūpus Latin
- dappoco Italian
- pochezza Italian
- pochissimo Italian
- poco Italian
- putti Italian
- orthopédique French
- apocar Spanish, Castilian
- poco Spanish, Castilian
- poquito Spanish, Castilian
- παιδαγωγία Ancient Greek
- παιδαγωγός Ancient Greek
- παιδεραστής Ancient Greek
- παιδεραστία Ancient Greek
- παιδοφῐ́λης Ancient Greek
- παύω Ancient Greek
- παῖς Ancient Greek
- φαῦλος Ancient Greek
- *peh₂u-kos Proto-Indo-European
- *peh₂ukos Proto-Indo-European
- *peh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *polH- Proto-Indo-European
- *péh₂uros Proto-Indo-European
- *pōlH- Proto-Indo-European
- apoquentar Portuguese
- pouco Portuguese
- *fawaz Proto-Germanic
- पोत Sanskrit
- पौत्र Sanskrit
- fewe Middle English
- fylja Old Norse
- fæð Old Norse
- empoverir Old French
- poi Old French
- poulet Old French
- poc Catalan, Valencian
- tampoc Catalan, Valencian
- փոքր Old Armenian
- poka Ido
- palo- Albanian
- pou Middle French
- pouco Old Portuguese
- *putrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *paukos Proto-Italic
- pocu Asturian
- pôc Friulian
- pauc Old Occitan
- picca Sicilian
- poko Papiamentu
- *put- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- pauc Dalmatian
- poku Kabuverdianu
- ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ grc-koi
- puoco Istriot
- *pavo-pars Old Latin
- pauc Interlingua
- puku Guinea-Bissau Creole