greatly, totally, immensely; used with erstaunt (“astonished”) or, less often, other words expressing a sudden reaction/emotion · better, more properly, readily
köken: From Middle High German baȥ, from Old High German baȥ, from Proto-Germanic *batiz (“better”, adverb), comparative of *wela (“well”), whence German wohl. Represents the old adverb form of besser, whose adverbial use developed in Middle High German. Attributive use of bass, in turn, is much more recent and has remained rare.
köken: * Sense pole: from Ancient Greek κοντός (“pole”) (noun). * Sense short: from the Hellenistic Koine Greek κοντός (kontós, “short”) (adjective) from the ancient sense Ancient Greek κοντός (“pole”) which referred to shorter kinds of poles, hence the sense shortness.
köken: First attested as Late Old Korean 捺則 in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103. First attested in the Gugeupbang eonhae (救急方諺解 / 구급방언해), 1466, as Middle Korean ᄂᆞᆽ다〮 (Yale: nòc-tá). However, 15th century attestations of ᄂᆞᆽ다 (nocta) only appear in the sense "to subside (of a swelling)". The sense "to be low" only appears since the 1570s, which suggests that it is a back-formation from ᄂᆞᄌᆞᆨᄒᆞ다…
base; foundation · base, basis; a set of vectors which span a certain space · base; the lower, horizontal line in a triangle or the horizontal plane in a cone, pyramid etc.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- Middle French mal- French mal-bor. Esperanto mal- Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós Proto-Italic *altos Latin altusbor. Esperanto alta Esperanto malalta From mal- + alta.