köken: From Middle High German al-ein. Cognate with Middle English al-one, English alone, Dutch alleen, Low German alleene (Münsterländisch), alläine (Sauerländisch).
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
köken: all- + ena Cognate with English alone (“alone”), Scots alane (“alone”), Saterland Frisian alleene (“alone”), West Frisian allinne (“alone”), Dutch alleen (“alone”), Low German alleen (“alone”), German allein (“alone”), Danish alene (“alone”). More at all, en.
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…
hardly, barely (with difficulty) · hardly, barely, scarcely (in a very small measure) · only, just (no more than)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Vulgar Latin ad Proto-Indo-European *weyk- Proto-Italic *wiks Vulgar Latin vix Vulgar Latin *ad vix Romanian abi Romanian abia Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad vix, from ad + vix. The original form was abi, a variant found in some dialects; the final -a was added by analogy with adverbs like aci(a), aiure(a), acole(a). This suffixation…
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.
Lexicalization of the Old Hungarian noun and adjective egyed (“the only one; single, lonely, solitary”) + -ül (adverb-forming suffix), from egy (“one”) + -ed (nominal suffix).