köken: From Middle French chasque, a backformation from chascun, from Old French chascun (whence modern chacun). The Old French derives from a conflation of Vulgar Latin *quiscunus (from quisque unus) with synonymous *catunus (from cata unus, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá), whence Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese cada). The short vowel (and hence the lack of a circumflex) is due to the usually…
köken: Inherited from Latin ambōs m pl. Old Spanish consistently had amos, representing the inherited form, while ambos existed in neighbouring Old Leonese. Later, Latin influence helped ambos spread into Spanish as well, where it displaced the form without /b/.
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *amendoi, from ambī duī, from Latin ambō (“both”) + duī, from duo (“two”). Compare Aromanian amindoilji, andoilji. Cf. also Old Italian amendue, Engadine amenduos, Old French andui, Occitan amdui.
one of two, one or the other; either · = uterque, both
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos Proto-Italic *aljos Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *aliteros Latin alter Latin uter Latin alteruter From alter + uter.
köken: From Old Danish bæggiæ, from Old Norse beggja, from Proto-Germanic *bajjǫ̂, the genitive form of Proto-Germanic *bai (“both”). In Old Norse the other cases have been replaced by the enlargened stem báðir (cf. Danish både).