everything; all · all (as in "we all" etc.) · Used with an interrogative to express that the answer probably covers more than one item, like dialectal English all.
köken: From Middle High German alles, allez, from Old High German allez, allaz, neuter form of al, all (“all”), equivalent to all + -es. Compare Low German allns (Allns), Dutch alles, West Frisian alles, Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌰 (allata).
köken: From Middle Dutch alles, genitive of al. The use as a case-neutral form may have been reinforced by German alles, from a merger of Middle High German alles (genitive) and allez (nominative and accusative). Note, however, that Dutch iets (“something”) and niets (“nothing”) are also genitives, as is German nichts. Moreover, the form alles is also used in western German dialects where it cannot go…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese algũu, from Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from Latin aliquis + ūnus. Compare Spanish alguno, French aucun, Italian alcuno.
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 모도〮 (Yale: mwòtwó), analyzable as 몯- (mwòt-, “to gather”) + -오 (-wo, “adverbializer”) although rarely perceived as such by modern speakers. Compare 자주 (jaju), 너무 (neomu), 비로소 (biroso), et cetera.
그림은 모두 네 개입니다.
“어떻게 생각해? 이것은 굉장한 소식이야. 우리 모두가 좋아하는 어떤 사람에 대한 중요한 소식이라구.”
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Balto-Slavic *is Proto-Slavic *jь Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kas Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *jakъ Old Polish jaki Polish jaki Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sьder. Old Polish -ś Polish -ś Polish jakiś From jaki + -ś. First attested in 1534. Compare…
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀇 m sg (koi, “someone, something”, nominative). See there for more. Cognate to Awadhi कोई (koī), Braj कोऊ (koū), Punjabi ਕੋਈ (koī), Gujarati કોઈ (koī), Marathi कुणी (kuṇī), Bengali কেউ (keu), Bhojpuri केऊ (kēū), Assamese কেও (keü), Sinhalese කොයි (koyi). Originally the masculine nominative singular form of a paradigm whose neuter form became कुछ (kuch) and genitive form…