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: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynosder. Proto-Balto-Slavic *edīˀnas Proto-Slavic *edìnъ Old Polish jeden Polish jeden Inherited from Old Polish jeden.
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…
alone, by oneself, on one's own · exclusively (nothing else, only the given thing)
köken: Lexicalization of the Old Hungarian noun and adjective egyed (“the only one; single, lonely, solitary”) + -ül (adverb-forming suffix), from egy (“one”) + -ed (nominal suffix).
aile: egyed, egyedüli, egyedüllét, egyedülálló, egyes-egyedül, a baj nem jár egyedül
(with personal inflection: magamban, magadban etc.)