comparative degree of bon ("better") · comparative degree of bien · superlative degree of bon ("best")
çekim: çoğul meilleurs
eş: mieux, supérieur
zıt: pire
köken: Inherited from Middle French meilleur, from Old French meillor, from Latin meliōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”).
aile: j'en passe et des meilleures, j'en passe et des meilleurs, meilleur ami, meilleure amie, meilleurs vœux, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, se montrer sous son meilleur jour
J'aime la pizza, mais les raviolis sont meilleurs.
eş: только, всего, единственно, исключительно, лишь только, только
köken: Old East Slavic лише (liše), originally comparative form of лихъ (lixŭ, “bad”). Compare with Ukrainian лише́ (lyšé), лишень (lyšenʹ) and лиш (lyš), Carpathian Rusyn лиш (lyš).
aile: всего лишь, лишь бы, лишь только, только лишь
only, just · as long as; only · just; a modal particle indicating a certain degree of indifference towards the result.
eş: echter, doch
köken: From Middle Dutch maer, māre, mar, mer, apheretic variant of nemaer, nemāre, from earlier newaer, neware (“except, however, only”), from ne ware (“were not”). Not cognate with English mere.
aile: nog maar, zeg maar, maar liefst
Het was maar een vraag!
Hij was maar een clown, maar nu is hij dood.
Leg het lepeltje maar op het schoteltje van het koffiekopje.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háykas Sanskrit एक (eka) Sanskrit -ल (-la) Sanskrit एकल (ekala) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮 (ĕkkalla) Prakrit -𑀓- (-ka-) Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀬 (ĕkkallaya) Old Hindi अकेला (akelā) Hindi अकेला Inherited from Old Hindi अकेला (akelā), a variant of एकला (ekalā), एकल (ekala) with metathesis, from Prakrit…
only (no more than) · only (exclusively) · Indicates the subject to be characterised by an abundance of the respective noun: all
eş: abia, decât, doar, decât, doar, exclusiv
köken: Univerbation of nu + mai. Compare Latin American Spanish nomás, Catalan només and Venetan noma. First attested in the 16th century. The imperative-accompanying sense is a semantic loan from Hungarian csak.
aile: de numa’, de numa-numa, numaidecât, numaicât
only, exclusively (excluding everything else) · just, only, merely, solely (when something is not as great or as much or as serious as could be expected) · for a reason that the speaker does not want to specify
eş: csakis, csupán, csupáncsak, egyedül, egyes-egyedül, kizárólag
just, only, merely, simply · recently, just now · presently
köken: From modus (“measure, mode, manner, way”); the adverb derives from its ablative form. The short vowel in the adverb is an example of iambic shortening that became conventional in Classical Latin (as in ego).
aile: modernus, non modo, solummodo, tantummodo
Tunc, (ille) modo edere volēbat.
Semel modo nōn satis.
Nam et nāvium figūrā et rēmōrum mōtū et inūsitātō genere tormentōrum permōtī barbarī cōnstitērunt āc paulum modo pedem rettulērunt.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *cis (“thread”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ks(i)ʔ or *ksih (“string; cord; rope; thread”). Compare North Central Vietnamese chỉn, Muong chỉl.
aile: cắn chỉ, chỉ tay, gạch chỉ, giun chỉ, kim chỉ