мелче

Etymology
. Related to 🇨🇬, with no direct cognates in other Slavic languages:
 * Mladenov: Akin to 🇨🇬.
 * Georgiev (БЕР): Semantically parallel to dial. < 🇰🇲,  < 🇰🇲.
 * Duvernois: Borrowed from or together with the Romanian lemma - inherited from a Paleo-Balkan substrate.

In either case, probably ultimately from 🇨🇬 (attested e.g. in 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  river snail grastropod from family
 * 2)  timid, meek, unassertive person or creature