eş: dagegen, hingegen, indes, indessen, jedoch, doch
köken: From Middle High German aber, aver, from Old High German aber, ābar, abur, aver, avur, afur, from Proto-Germanic *aferą (“behind”). Compare Bavarian owa (“but”), Luxembourgish awer (“but”), Saterland Frisian oaber (“but”), Middle Low German āver, German Low German aver (“but”).
only, just · as long as; only · just; a modal particle indicating a certain degree of indifference towards the result.
eş: echter, doch
köken: From Middle Dutch maer, māre, mar, mer, apheretic variant of nemaer, nemāre, from earlier newaer, neware (“except, however, only”), from ne ware (“were not”). Not cognate with English mere.
aile: nog maar, zeg maar, maar liefst
Het was maar een vraag!
Hij was maar een clown, maar nu is hij dood.
Leg het lepeltje maar op het schoteltje van het koffiekopje.
but (contrastive conjunction) · not only … but also
eş: lecz, pomimo, mimo to, jednak, lecz, tylko
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ōd Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō Proto-Slavic *a Proto-Slavic *le univ. Proto-Slavic *ale Old Polish ale Polish ale Inherited from Old Polish ale. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + le. For the particle use, compare Hungarian de.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit परि (pari), an apheretic form of उप्परि (uppari), from Sanskrit उपरि (upari, “above”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *upári, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *upári, from Proto-Indo-European *upér, from *upo. Cognate with Gujarati પર (par), Marathi वर (var), and distantly Latin super and Old English ofer (whence English over). Doublet of ऊपर (ūpar).
but (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence)
köken: From muu (“other”), either based on: * the partitive singular form (muuta: “something else”; the -uu- would have first been shortened and the final vowel elided, thus mut(t) with reanalysis as mutta, perhaps via a development like ei juokse, muuta [kuin] kävelee (literally “isn't running, [not] other than walking”) > ei juokse, mutta kävelee (literally “isn't running but walking”)), * the…
Near-synonym: vaan
Olisin halunnut lähteä heidän mukaansa, mutta en ehtinyt.
köken: Uncertain. Probably from a compound of de and iar(ă). It may also perhaps come from an intermediate form *deară, from Latin dē vērō, or from dē eā rē. See also doar.