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: From jätte (“giant”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål kjempe-, Norwegian Nynorsk kjempe-, Danish kæmpe-, Dutch reuze- and German riesen-, all deriving from their respective word for ”giant”.
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: From the Latin adjective fortis, fortem, from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”). Compare the same semantic development in French fort, Occitan fòrça, Ligurian foart (attested in Menton, France). In older Romanian, the word was also used as a freestanding adverbial, in addition to simply as an intensifier.
Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *velikъ Old Polish wielki Polish wielki Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Balto-Slavic *-is Proto-Slavic *-ь Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-jas Proto-Slavic *-jь Proto-Slavic *-ьje Old Polish -e Polish -e Polish wielce From wielki + -e.