Intensifying prefix for superlatives: very; of them all
köken: From aller, the genitive form of alle (“all”), from Middle High German al, from Old High German al, from Proto-Germanic *allaz. Compare English all-, English alder-.
aller- + erste (“first”) → allererste (“very first”)
aller- + größte Stadt (“the biggest city”) → allergrößte Stadt (“the very biggest city / the biggest city of them all”)
aller- + meist (“most”) → allermeist (“almost all”)
köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چُوقْ (çoq), چوخ (çoḫ), from Proto-Turkic *čok (“many, very; to gather, multiply”). Cognate with Turkish çok, Gagauz çok, Crimean Tatar çoq, etc.
köken: Inherited from Early Old Oghuz اُرَنْ (ören, “bad”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾwylʾn' /awērān/). Doublet of weýran (“destroyed”).
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek καθόλου (kathólou) from Ancient Greek καθ’ (kath’) + ὅλου (hólou) "on the whole, generally", genitive of ὅλος (hólos, “whole, all”).
until · voila; soon, shortly; suddenly · only; scarcely; as soon as; when, as
eş: gw. (Górny Śląsk) aże
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ōd Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō Proto-Slavic *a Proto-Indo-European *gʰe Proto-Balto-Slavic *ge Proto-Slavic *že univ. Proto-Slavic *aže Old Polish aż Polish aż Inherited from Old Polish aż.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀇𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀦 (*ittina), 𑀇𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀮 (ittila), ultimately from Sanskrit इयत्तक (iyattaká). Cognate with Punjabi ਇੰਨਾ (innā), Gujarati એટલું (eṭalũ), Marathi इतके (itke).
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: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum tantum, from Latin eccum + tantum. (The initial syllable of *eccum- compounds regularly turns to /a-/ in Romanian.) Closely parallel to Italian cotanto and Old Catalan aitant. Compare also Old French itant, Old Spanish atanto (as well as French tant, Italian tanto, Spanish tanto). For a clearer view of the phonetic evolution of the Romanian word, compare the…
Clipping of とてもかくても (“no matter how, not at all”), used with negative verbs. The sense "very, exceedingly" is a shift from the earlier sense of "no matter how", and was first attested around 1910-1920. Compare 全然.