köken: From Middle High German al-ein. Cognate with Middle English al-one, English alone, Dutch alleen, Low German alleene (Münsterländisch), alläine (Sauerländisch).
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.
the only, individual, sole, just one; one and only
köken: Cognate with Tatar бердәнбер (berdänber), Kazakh бірден-бір (bırden-bır), Kyrgyz бирден бир (birden bir)/бирден-бир (birden-bir), Crimean Tatar birden-bir, Uzbek birdan-bir/birdan bir, Uyghur بىردىنبىر (birdinbir, “one and only”), etc.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese algũu, from Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from Latin aliquis + ūnus. Compare Spanish alguno, French aucun, Italian alcuno.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Balto-Slavic *is Proto-Slavic *jь Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kas Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *jakъ Old Polish jaki Polish jaki Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sьder. Old Polish -ś Polish -ś Polish jakiś From jaki + -ś. First attested in 1534. Compare…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háykas Sanskrit एक (eka) Sanskrit -ल (-la) Sanskrit एकल (ekala) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮 (ĕkkalla) Prakrit -𑀓- (-ka-) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀬 (ĕkkallaya) Old Hindi अकेला (akelā) Hindi अकेला Inherited from Old Hindi अकेला (akelā), a variant of एकला (ekalā), एकल (ekala) with metathesis, from Prakrit…
only (no more than) · only (exclusively) · Indicates the subject to be characterised by an abundance of the respective noun: all
eş: abia, decât, doar, decât, doar, exclusiv
köken: Univerbation of nu + mai. Compare Latin American Spanish nomás, Catalan només and Venetan noma. First attested in the 16th century. The imperative-accompanying sense is a semantic loan from Hungarian csak.
aile: de numa’, de numa-numa, numaidecât, numaicât
only, exclusively (excluding everything else) · just, only, merely, solely (when something is not as great or as much or as serious as could be expected) · for a reason that the speaker does not want to specify
eş: csakis, csupán, csupáncsak, egyedül, egyes-egyedül, kizárólag
just, only, merely, simply · recently, just now · presently
köken: From modus (“measure, mode, manner, way”); the adverb derives from its ablative form. The short vowel in the adverb is an example of iambic shortening that became conventional in Classical Latin (as in ego).
aile: modernus, non modo, solummodo, tantummodo
Tunc, (ille) modo edere volēbat.
Semel modo nōn satis.
Nam et nāvium figūrā et rēmōrum mōtū et inūsitātō genere tormentōrum permōtī barbarī cōnstitērunt āc paulum modo pedem rettulērunt.