mite 2 
(mīt)
(mīt)n.
Idiom: 1.
a. A very small contribution or amount of money.
b. A widow's mite.
2. A very small object, creature, or particle.
3. A coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing.
a mite
To a small degree; somewhat: That remark was a mite unfair.
[Middle English, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German mīte, a small Flemish coin, tiny animal.]
- Indo-European root: pau-
- Indo-European root: pau-
- Indo-European root: paəwr̥
- Indo-European root: ped-
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- Indo-European root: peiə-
- Indo-European root: peku-
- Indo-European root: pekw-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pelə-
- Indo-European root: pelə-
- Indo-European root: pelə-
- Indo-European root: penkwe
- Indo-European root: pent-
- Indo-European root: per
- Indo-European root: per-
- Indo-European root: per-
- Indo-European root: per-
- Indo-European root: per-
- Indo-European root: perd-
- Indo-European root: perkwu-