wenig
adj · /ˈveːnɪç/ ·Etymology
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.
Translation
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little, few (a small amount, a small number)
Arm ist nicht, wer zu wenig besitzt, sondern, wer zu viel haben möchte.
Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.
Ich habe während der Mittagspause ein wenig geschlafen, weil ich so müde war.
I slept a little during lunch break because I was so tired.
Im Allgemeinen weiß man wenig über nicht lineare Differentialgleichungen zweiter Ordnung.
In general, little is known about nonlinear second order differential equations.
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