never, at no time · no more, no longer, never again
eş: nie, unmöglich, niemals, nicht, mehr, nicht
köken: From Middle High German niemer, from Old High German niomēr, itself usually derived from ni- (“not”) + iomēr (“ever”), thus the same construct as English ever and never. Pfeifer instead derives it from Old High German nio (“never”) + iomēr (modern German nie + immer). The modern (chiefly southern) interpretation, finally, makes it equivalent to a contraction of ni(ch)t mehr (“no more”) or nie…
used to express the comparative and superlative of a following adjective or adverb · most, -est (superlative) · more, most (to a greater / the greatest extent)
eş: davantage, -issime
köken: Inherited from Middle French plus, from Old French plus, from Latin plus.
aile: à plus, à plus tard, au plus, d'autant plus, d'autant plus que, de plus, de plus en plus, en plus, en plus de, ni plus ni moins
any more, any longer · only, merely, just, solely (when there used to be more) · synonym of enemmän /enempää (“more”)
köken: Either from the partitive singular of (now obsolete) enä, or alternatively from enä + -ki(n), through reduction (*enä-ɣi(k) > enäi > enää); the clitic -kin (from earlier *-ɣik) may have developed a comparative sense. In Old Literary Finnish, this word was used in the more general meaning “more”, including as a comparative adjective, but its use has become more specialized over time.