Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to the verb stem. · Forms instance nouns from verbs. · Indicates something defined by a number; in the plural often all numbers with the same first digits
köken: From Middle High German -ære, -er, from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic *-ārī, from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, further etymology unknown but possibly from Latin -ārius.
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
comparative degree of molto; more · anymore, any longer
eş: maggiore, superiore, maggiormente, soprattutto, principalmente, oltre
köken: Inherited from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). The initial autogemination, though lost in standard pronunciation, is still found in most varieties of regional Italian. The gemination occurs predictably before the palatalization of the original liquid -l-, compare doppio, orecchio, etc.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ešče (“still, yet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esk(ʷ)e(h₁). Cognate with Belarusian яшчэ (jašče), Ukrainian ще (šče), Polish jeszcze.
Regular construction of comparative: ful (“ugly”) → fulare (“uglier”) · Denotes a person or object who (regularly) performs the action of the verb: klättra (“climb”) → klättrare (“climber”)
köken: From Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari (also substituting Old Norse -ir), from Proto-Germanic *-ōzô.
-er, -ie; a suffix used to form nouns and proper nouns from place names, common nouns and adjectives; gives a familiar nuance to the original word; the original word is often truncated in the process.
köken: Probably from Swedish -is and possibly also extracted from slang terms including that suffix.
kova (“hard, tough”) + -is → kovis (“badass”)
mestaruus (“championship”) + -is → mestis (“league of champions”)
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic маи (mai), from Koine Greek Μάϊος (Máïos), from Latin (mensis) Maius. Less likely a direct derivation from Latin.
more (in relation to number, with countable nouns) · several · multiple
çekim: karşılaştırma form
köken: From Old Norse fleiri, from Proto-Germanic *flaizô, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“full, many”), compare Latin plūs and Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn), which are used with both uncountable nouns (quantity) and countable nouns (number).
köken: From Proto-Mon-Khmer *hən ~ *həən (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Arem hɨən ("more than; to defeat, to win against"), Pacoh hon (“grown”), Bahnar hon (“to grow”), Plang [La Gang] hɔ́n, and Khasi byrhien (“(people) in large numbers”)).
used to indicate that a given action, expected to happen, has not started up to the moment of speaking; yet, so far · used to indicate that a certain action or states continues on at the time of speaking; still, on · yet (one, once); again; in addition
zıt: jau
köken: Originally the adverbial form (< *vēli) of a palatalized i-stem parallel form of the u-stem adjective vēls (q.v.) (< *vēlus; cf. pronunciation [ˈvæ̂ːls] with [æ], instead of the [ɛ] in the adverb [ˈvɛ̂ːl]). Cognates include Lithuanian vė̃l (“again”).
viņš vēl nav pārnācis
neesmu vēl redzējis, kā dedzina ogles un tecina darvu
“Zigi, vai tu neesi vēl aizmidzis?” pēc brīža Vilnis iejautājās: “nē!”
Etimoloji
From Proto-Italic *-jōs, from Proto-Indo-European *-yōs, for original **-yoss, i.e. the s-stem *-yos- with masculine nominative *-s. The ō from the nominative case was made common to all cases. Afterwards nom.sg. -iōr > -ior, by Latin sound laws. Thus paradoxically, as in the r-stems (soror, -tor, -or), in the resulting paradigm the one form with a short stem vowel is the only form whose stem was…