köken: Compare to equivalent conjunctions/determiners with similar functions: Tatar әллә (ällä), Kazakh әлде (älde), Kyrgyz алда (alda); also a component in indefinite pronouns: Uzbek allakim (“somebody”), Uyghur ئەللىكىم (ellikim, “somebody”).
interrogative particle: introduces a question · if, whether
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian чи (či), from Old East Slavic чи (či), from Proto-Slavic *či, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₁, initially instrumental singular of pronoun *kʷo-/*kʷe-.
that is, that is to say, i.e.; in other words, to put it another way; as in (used to introduce a clarification or explanation) · or, also known as, AKA, a.k.a. (used to introduce an alternative name) · or (used to introduce an alternate title for a work)
köken: Either from the pronominal stem e- seen in että (compare mikäli, from mikä), or alternatively a North Germanic loan (compare Old Norse ella, ellar, from Proto-Germanic *aljaz). Also compare Estonian elik.
aile: elikkä
Hän tulee tänne maanantaina eli ylihuomenna.
Kuivajää sublimoituu lämmetessään kaasuksi, eli se muuttuu suoraan kaasuksi muuttumatta välillä nesteeksi.
köken: Lexicalization of különb (“different”) + -en (adverb-forming suffix).
aile: máskülönben, nemkülönben
A különben zajos étterem most teljesen csendes volt.
Különben is, kit érdekel?
Nem tudtam elmenni a koncertre. Különben sem volt egy jó ötlet.
Etimoloji
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یوخیسه (yoḫısa). Compare Turkish yoksa (“otherwise”), Turkmen ýogsa (“otherwise, or else”), Turkmen ýogsam (“otherwise”). By surface analysis, yox (“no; there is not”) + -sa (“conditional suffix”).