köken: From Middle High German vast, vaste, from Old High German fasto (“solidly, strictly, securely”), from Proto-West Germanic *fastō, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz. Cognate with Middle Low German vaste (whence German Low German fast), English fast (adverb). Compare also German fest, English fast (adjective), Dutch vast.
Fast 60 Spielfilme sind zu sehen.
ALs nu Abram in Egypten kam / sahen die Egypter das Weib / das sie fast schön war.
eş: all’incirca, approssimativamente, a un dipresso, circa, più o meno, pressappoco
köken: Inherited from Latin quasi. The final -i seems to hint towards the word being borrowed or semi-learned, but it's not uncommon for Italian to shift final -e to -i in invariable words (cf. avanti, dieci, tardi, etc.).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Balto-Slavic *prṓˀwas Proto-Slavic *pràvъ Old Polish prawy Proto-Slavic *-e Old Polish -ie Old Polish prawie Polish prawie Inherited from Old Polish prawie. By surface analysis, prawy + -ie. Etymology 1, particle sense 1 is an extension of etymology 1, particle sense 2. Compare Kashubian prawie and Slovincian prawjê.