köken: From Middle High German al-ein. Cognate with Middle English al-one, English alone, Dutch alleen, Low German alleene (Münsterländisch), alläine (Sauerländisch).
eş: только, всего, единственно, исключительно, лишь только, только
köken: Old East Slavic лише (liše), originally comparative form of лихъ (lixŭ, “bad”). Compare with Ukrainian лише́ (lyšé), лишень (lyšenʹ) and лиш (lyš), Carpathian Rusyn лиш (lyš).
aile: всего лишь, лишь бы, лишь только, только лишь
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.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *cis (“thread”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ks(i)ʔ or *ksih (“string; cord; rope; thread”). Compare North Central Vietnamese chỉn, Muong chỉl.
aile: cắn chỉ, chỉ tay, gạch chỉ, giun chỉ, kim chỉ
used to introduce a word or phrase that adds something to a previous statement and contrasts with it in some way: but · but (however, although) · used at the beginning of a sentence that expresses surprise, annoyance, shock, disagreement, etc.: but
eş: а, ала, ама, обаче, ала́, ал
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *nъ Old Church Slavonic нѫ (nǫ) Bulgarian но Inherited from Old Church Slavonic нѫ (nǫ), from Proto-Slavic *nъ.