at least, anyway, at any rate · right now, now, immediately
eş: tenminste
köken: Univerbation of al thans. Originally, in the 17th century, it meant an emphatic version of “now”, as in “already now”/“by now”, but this meaning is now outdated or archaic.
Dit zou geen probleem moeten zijn - althans, dat hoop ik.
zıt: εν εναντία περιπτώσει, older spelling: ἐν ἐναντίᾳ περιπτώσει
köken: A calque of French en tout cas. Katharevousa set phrase (polytonic spelling: ἐν πάσῃ περιπτώσει) with preposition ἐν (en, “in”), the feminine singular dative πάσῃ (pásēi) of πᾶς (pâs, “everyone”) & περίπτωσις (períptōsis, “encountering”) -modern περίπτωση (períptosi, “case, instance”)-.
but, but also; adversative conjunction, used to express strong opposition or contrast, with a nuance of surprise, inconsistency or contradiction, in various syntactic contexts
köken: From earlier (18th-century) tadšu, from the adverb tad (“then”) and an old particle *-šu, found also as the second element in jebšu, kauču (< kaut + šu), from earlier *-šau, from *-tyau. Cognates include Lithuanian tačiaũ.
(a) between sentence elements at the same level:
briesmīgas ir domas, kādas Nadīna domā par Jurģi... briesmīgas, taču... patiesas
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