very, extremely · in particular, particularly · synonym of eritellen (“specifying, allocating”)
eş: epätavallisen, erinomaisen, hirveän, huikean, hyvin, huomattavan
köken: eri + -ttäin (distributive plural). Equivalently, from the second infinitive instructive of erittää (“to specify”) (standard erittäen), and erittäin is very likely one of the prototypes for the -ttain suffix in general. Semantic evolution seems to run from senses 3-to-2-to-1.
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.…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese avondo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin abundus, an adjective likely based on Latin abundē (“abundantly”).
köken: Etymology tree Russian -яга (-jaga)der. Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. Esperanto -eg- Esperanto -e Esperanto ege From -eg- + -e.
much; many; frequent; abundant; numerous; great or considerable in quantity · abounding or rich in · large; great; mighty
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *bʰénǵʰus Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaȷ́ʰúš Sanskrit बहु From Proto-Indo-Aryan *baźʰúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaȷ́ʰúš, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰn̥ǵʰús (“thick”), from *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”). Cognate with Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick, large”).