köken: Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e /ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g /-ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266. According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *munagas Proto-Slavic *mъnogъder. Bulgarian много Derived from Proto-Slavic *mъnogъ, originally a fully-fletched adjective, eventually reanalysed as an indeclinable adverb. Fossilized plural forms мно́зи m (mnózi) and мно́га n (mnóga) (for example, in the poetic expression мно́гая ле́та (mnógaja léta, “many years”)) are attested in dialects and literature.…