köken: From Middle High German mēre, from Old High German mēro, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô, from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”). See English more for more.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ešče (“still, yet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁). Cognate with Belarusian яшчэ (jašče), Ukrainian ще (šče), Polish jeszcze.
used to form the comparative of adjectives and adverbs; more; -er · preceded by the definitive article, used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; most; -est · more (to a greater degree or extent)
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese mais, from Latin magis (“more”). Doublet of mas. Displaced collateral form chus.
aile: mais mais, mais ou menos
O Tejo é mais bello que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia
Então continuaram a estudar enquanto o céu lá fora se tornava gradualmente mais escuro.
[…], quanto maior o diâmetro axonal, mais rapidamente ele conduz impulsos.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-mpi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-mpa. Cognate with Hungarian -bb and the element -mb- in Moksha сембе (sembe, “all”) and Erzya омбо (ombo, “other”), томбале (tombale, “beyond”).
heikko (“weak”) + -mpi → heikompi (“weaker”)
matala (“low, shallow”) + -mpi → matalampi (“lower, shallower”)
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic маи (mai), from Koine Greek Μάϊος (Máïos), from Latin (mensis) Maius. Less likely a direct derivation from Latin.
köken: From Proto-Italic *-jōs, from Proto-Indo-European *-yōs, for original **-yoss, i.e. the s-stem *-yos- with masculine nominative *-s. The ō from the nominative case was made common to all cases. Afterwards nom.sg. -iōr > -ior, by Latin sound laws. Thus paradoxically, as in the r-stems (soror, -tor, -or), in the resulting paradigm the one form with a short stem vowel is the only form whose stem was…
From Old Norse fleiri, from Proto-Germanic *flaizô, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“full, many”), compare Latin plūs and Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn), which are used with both uncountable nouns (quantity) and countable nouns (number).